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de•cep•tive



Pronunciation: (di-sep'tiv), [key]
—adj.
1. apt or tending to deceive: The enemy's peaceful overtures may be deceptive.
2. perceptually misleading: It looks like a curved line, but it's deceptive.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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