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deceptiveadjective tending or having power to deceivein his deceptive answer about the vehicle's history, the salesman said that the used car had never been hit by another car beguiling, deceitful, deceiving, 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 given to or marked by cheating and deceptiona mail-order firm indicted for deceptive business practices bent(chiefly British), crooked, dishonest, double-dealing, duplicitous, fast, fraudulent, guileful, rogue, shady, sharp, shifty, underhand, underhanded unconscionable, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulousdeceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory, falseartful, beguiling, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, foxy, slick, sly, subtle, wilydefrauding, devious, furtive, slippery, sneaking, sneaky, trickish, trickyinsidious, perfidious, treacherous aboveboard, honest, straight conscientious, decent, ethical, honorable, just, scrupulous, uprightforthright, straightforward ca. 1611 |