Deceptive
Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.
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Deceptive Quotations
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert Einstein
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
John Burroughs
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
Vaclav Havel
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
Oliver Goldsmith
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
Pierre Corneille
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
Dorothy L. Sayers
The seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
Leland Stanford
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
Neil LaBute
Deceptive Translations
deceptive in Latin is falsus
deceptive in Norwegian is villedende
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