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deceptive
English
Etymology
From Middle French déceptif, from Latin d?cept?vus, from d?cipi? (“I deceive”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?.?s?p.t?v/
Adjective
deceptive (comparative more deceptive, superlative most deceptive)
- Likely or attempting to deceive.
- Synonym: misleading
- 1653, John Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis, London: William Hunt, Scene 24, p. 521,[1]
- […] 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;
- 1789, Thomas Holcroft (translator), The History of My Own Times by Frederick the Great, London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Part 1, Chapter 12, p. 163,[2]
- […] at the opening of the campaign, the French, after various deceptive attempts on different places, suddenly invested Tournay.
- 1846, Richard Chenevix Trench, Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord, London: John W. Parker, 2nd ed., 1847, Preliminary Essay, Chapter 2, p. 10,[3]
- language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes
- 1978, Susan Sontag, Illness as Metaphor, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Chapter 2, p. 13,[4]
- […] 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.
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- See also Thesaurus:deceptive
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tricky
English
Etymology
From trick +? -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??ki/
- Rhymes: -?ki
Adjective
tricky (comparative trickier, superlative trickiest)
- hard to deal with, complicated
- They were in a tricky situation.
- adept at using deception
- A tricky salesman can sell anything.
- (colloquial, slang) Relating to or associated with a prostitution trick
- I don't want any of your tricky money, thank you!
Related terms
- trick
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See also
- sneaky
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