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deceivingadjective tending or having power to deceivethe deceiving nature of most flat maps of the globe causes some people to believe erroneously that Greenland is actually bigger than South America beguiling, deceitful, deceptive, deluding, delusive, delusory, fallacious, false, misleading, specious artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, shady, shifty, slick, sly, sneaking, sneaky, subtile, subtle, trick, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhanded, wilyinaccurate, incorrect, wrongbewildering, confounding, distracting, perplexing, puzzlingambidextrous, crooked, defrauding, dishonest, dissembling, double-dealing, duplicitous, faithless, fast, fraudulent, knavish, lying, mendacious, untrustworthy, untruthfulbogus, counterfeit, fake, feigned, forged, jive(slang), phony(also phoney), sham, spuriousinsidious, perfidious, treacherousambiguous, circuitous, equivocal, evasiveartificial, backhanded, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, two-faced aboveboard, forthright, nondeceptive, straightforward candid, direct, foursquare, frank, free-spoken, open, openhearted, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, straightclarifying, elucidative, explanatory, illuminatingrevealing, revelatoryhonest, trustworthy, truthful deceivingverbpresent participle of deceiveto cause to believe what is untruehe went to great lengths to deceive his family about the nature of his new job at the mall bamboozling, beguiling, bluffing, buffaloing, burning, catching, conning, cozening, deluding, duping, faking out, fooling, gaffing, gammoning, gulling, having, having on(chiefly British), hoaxing, hoodwinking, hornswoggling, humbugging, juggling, misguiding, misinforming, misleading, snookering, snowing, spoofing, stringing along, suckering, sucking in, taking in, tricking kidding, putting on, teasingbleeding, cheating, chiseling(or chiselling), defrauding, diddling, euchring, fleecing, flimflamming, gypping, hustling, mulcting, rooking, shortchanging, skinning, squeezing, sticking, stinging, swindling doing a number on, leading one down the garden path(also leading one up the garden path), pulling one's leg, pulling the wool over one's eyes undeceiving debunking, exposing, revealing, showing up, uncloaking, uncovering, unmaskingdisclosing, divulging, telling, unveilingdisabusing, disenchanting, disillusioning |