Definition of "deceptive"
deceptive
adjective
comparative more deceptive, superlative most deceptive
Likely or attempting to deceive.
Quotations
[…] others declare that no Creature can be made or transmuted into a better or worse, or transformed into another species […] and Martinus Delrio the Jesuit accounts this degeneration of Man into a Beast to be an illusion, deceptive and repugnant to Nature;
1653, John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis, London: William Hunt, Scene 24, page 521
[…] it is characteristic of TB that many of its symptoms are deceptive—liveliness that comes from enervation, rosy cheeks that look like a sign of health but come from fever—and an upsurge of vitality may be a sign of approaching death.
1978, Susan Sontag, chapter 2, in Illness as Metaphor, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 13