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Example sentences for: deceptive
How can you use “deceptive” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
It is, at worst, cruelly deceptive not to make it clear from the title (or a subtitle) that the book's focus is British slang.
It will rebuke state lotteries for their deceptive marketing and will try to force them to post odds and stop targeting the poor.
In the same deceptive spirit, Fischer claims that a similar calculation would indicate that employers never prefer relatives or cronies' kids, or that they never goof off on the golf course--even though he makes no attempt to supply that calculation.
Barry McCaffrey, has made it clear he regards the two laws as the work of deceptive and mischievous drug legalizers who have snookered a lot of otherwise right-thinking people.
Various states have recently gone after deceptive advertising in car leasing, sneaker price fixing, and telemarketing scams.