Example sentences for: deceptively

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

  • "Show me a single case where a Southern Baptist has acted deceptively ."

  • She just jumps into the shower and puts her wet hair back into a ponytail, which emphasizes her deceptively childlike appearance, and makes me feel slightly Humbertish at check-in time.

  • These deceptively simple structures are no less than the sacred repository of the national identity — Shinto sanctuaries dedicated nearly 2,000 years ago to Japan’s founding deities.

  • (The program deceptively implied that the judgment was based on wrongful prosecution.)

  • He has put his own suffering--as a boy he saw a Nazi kill his mother--into short narratives of self-absorbed Jewish life before the war that are so ominously toneless, artfully simple and repetitious, deceptively compressed in feeling, that the reader, aware of the horror about to descend on these people, feels like screaming but knows he will not be heard.


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