Example sentences for: deceptive

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

  • 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.

  • Closer inspection of the illustration accompanying the piece, purporting to be of Clinton's schedule for one week in June 1996, reveals that it is deeply deceptive.

  • Having said all that, the Asian market undoubtedly is more important, in economic terms, to large U.S. corporations than it is to your local dry cleaner, and in that sense the GDP-export comparison is deceptive.

  • 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.

  • Patterson was commenting on a letter from the Jewish Community Relations Council, an umbrella group of more than 60 organizations, protesting his denomination's use of "deceptive" tactics to convert Jews.


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