deceptive in a sentence

Their advertising is quite deceptive.

They say their prices are the lowest in town, but that is not true.

The car has a deceptively large trunk.

It looks small from the outside, but is much more spacious than one would imagine.

The government unemployment statistics are somewhat deceptive because they don’t include people who have given up looking for work.

Some people fear that cults try to recruit large numbers of young people into their religious groups by using deceptive techniques.

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We feel that the entire communication he had with Mr. Runion was deceptive.”

Sidewalks and foundations, by contrast, can seem deceptively clean and inert.

It is the attitude with which he achieves his goals that is at best deceptive.

Turns out, deceptive reviews are commonplace online – and so are doubts about them.

The group says the videos were deceptively doctored and say it’s done nothing illegal.

Planned Parenthood said that video and the others were misleading and deceptively edited.

“You are unrepentant and manipulative and you have the deceptive veneer of respectability.

Lindsay is a politically active idealist living outside Washington, D.C., who describes herself as ‘deceptively cheerful.’ Her constant smile and wry sense of humor hide the fact that she’s agonizing about losing her mother to cancer.