deceptive
/dɪˈsɛp.tɪv/ adjective B2- Likely or attempting to deceive. · deceptive practices· Appearances can be deceptive.
From the library
And how deceptive appearances may be, to be sure!
There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.
“Probabilities are deceptive.”
His ability to discern the hidden truths beneath a deceptive surface was honed not in a library, but at the helm of a massive wooden vessel.
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