DECEPTIVELY | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of deceptively in English deceptivelyadverb uk /dɪˈsep.tɪv.li/ us /dɪˈsep.t̬ɪv.li/ (also deceivingly) Add to word list Add to word list in a way that is deceptive (= making you believe something that is not true): deceptively simple The plan seemed deceptively simple (= it seemed simple but was not). The tool is noisy to use and deceptively dangerous (= it is more dangerous than it seems). See deceptive

• She writes with extraordinary clarity and makes it look deceptively easy.
• His voice was deceptively innocent, and she was led right into the trap.
• Conditions ahead of the storm were deceptively calm.
• With a deceptively strong arm she shoved him aside.
• They alleged that he had acted deceptively.

Dishonest

• artificiality
• bad faith
• be rotten to the core idiom
• bent
• cowboy
• finagle
• fishy
• fly-by-night
• fraudulence
• fraudulent
• mendacious
• mendaciously
• misleading
• misleadingly
• on the fiddle
• uncandid
• under false pretences phrase
• underhand
• unreliability
• unreliable

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in Chinese (Traditional) 欺騙性地，騙人地, 造成假象地… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 欺骗性地，骗人地, 造成假象地… See more in Spanish ilusoriamente, engañosamente, falsamente… See more in Portuguese enganosamente, ilusoriamente, enganadoramente… See more in Japanese in French in Turkish in Catalan in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Korean in Ukrainian in Italian 紛らわしく, 人（ひと）をだますように… See more faussement, trompeusement… See more aldatıcı (biçimde)… See more enganyosament… See more bedrieglijk… See more zdánlivě, falešně… See more vildledende, bedragerisk… See more dikira… See more ซึ่งหลอกลวง… See more trông cứ tưởng… See more zwodniczo… See more bedrägligt, vilseledande… See more kelihatan sahaja… See more trügerisch… See more villedende, tilsynelatende, bedragersk… See more 속여서… See more обманливо… See more ingannevolmente… See more Need a translator?

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