Definition of "deceptive" []

• Deceptive or tending to deceive. (adjective)

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• "This comes soon after Britain's foreign secretary, David Miliband, urged we stop using the term 'war on terror,' which he called deceptive and misleading."
• "On Nov. 3, Zango paid a $3 million fine to settle an FTC investigation into what it called deceptive marketing practices by the Bellevue, Wash., company."
• "The Cornell researchers tackled what they call deceptive opinion spam by commissioning freelance writers on"