Example sentences for: deceptive

How can you use “deceptive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Even today, the SEC continues to limit the kinds of forward-looking statements companies can make, out of a desire to protect individual investors--whom it considers less serious and financially responsible--from potentially deceptive statements.

  • North Carolina : A deceptive forecast.

  • Various states have recently gone after deceptive advertising in car leasing, sneaker price fixing, and telemarketing scams.

  • Fund companies' greed-inspired pursuit of assets occasionally leads them to lie, cheat, and virtually steal from their shareholders, through deceptive advertising or outrageous fees and expenses.

  • But the contrast between "diplomacy" and "force" is just as deceptive as the contrast between "negotiation" and "bombing."


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