different between deceptively vs lyingly
deceptively
English
Etymology
deceptive +? -ly
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??s?pt?vli/
Adverb
deceptively (comparative more deceptively, superlative most deceptively)
- In a deceptive manner; misleadingly
- Australian Law Dictionary "deceptively similar" Oxford Reference
- A trade mark is deceptively similar to another trade mark if it so nearly resembles that other trade mark that it is likely to deceive or cause confusion
- 2006 February 10, Dorian Lynskey "Readers recommend: joyous songs" The Guardian
- those deceptively jaunty tunes that mask less-than- cheerful lyrics
- Australian Law Dictionary "deceptively similar" Oxford Reference
- actually but not apparently
- 2015 February 12, Alison Spiegel, "Deceptively Easy Valentine's Day Recipes" HuffPost
- We've rounded up 26 recipes that sound, look and taste difficult but are actually really easy. ... try one of these deceptively easy but wildly impressive recipes.
- 2015 September 3, Frances O'Rourke, "‘Deceptively spacious’ fits the bill in Dalkey for €1.575m" The Irish Times
- The “deceptively spacious” cliche is accurate in the case of this house near the corner of Castlepark Road and Hyde Road: from the front, it looks like a traditional 1930s home. But the current owners, who moved here 23 years ago, have extended it three times since then; now, with two levels at the back, it has 346sq m (3,725sq ft) of space.
- 2018 May 7, Phil Harrison "Monday’s best TV: Genderquake" The Guardian
- what seems like a complex situation is actually deceptively simple
- 2020 November 9, Adrian Horton, "A Teacher review – intriguing yet incomplete drama about grooming" The Guardian
- Over 20-25 minute episodes, A Teacher shows us what should seem to be a transparent case of grooming: Claire (Kate Mara), a quiet, deceptively self-destructive new high school English teacher in Austin, Texas, and her 17-year-old student-turned-lover, Eric (Love Simon’s Nick Robinson).
- 2015 February 12, Alison Spiegel, "Deceptively Easy Valentine's Day Recipes" HuffPost
- apparently but not actually
- 1968 October 29, Leonard P. Moore, Bertino v. Polish Ocean Line, 402 F.2d 963, 866 (2 Cir. 1968)
- The trial court found that the crewman who had spread the sawdust over the oil had made the situation more dangerous by creating a deceptively safe condition, resulting in a "trap" and an unseaworthy condition.
- 2020 December 27, Steve Nadis, "After Centuries, a Simple Math Problem Gets an Exact Solution" Wired
- Mathematicians have long pondered a deceptively easy puzzle about the reach of a goat tied to a fence. Until now, they’ve only found approximate answers.
- 1968 October 29, Leonard P. Moore, Bertino v. Polish Ocean Line, 402 F.2d 963, 866 (2 Cir. 1968)
Usage notes
Senses 2 and 3 are opposite and it may be impossible to infer from the context which sense is intended in a given case.
Translations
deceptively From the web:
- what deceptively means
- what does deceptively mean
- what does deceptively simple mean
- what does deceptively spacious mean
- what does deceptively small mean
- what does deceptively easy meaning
- what does deceptively casual mean
- what does deceptively
lyingly
English
Etymology
lying +? -ly
Adverb
lyingly (comparative more lyingly, superlative most lyingly)
- In a lying manner; deceptively, mendaciously.
- 1828, Robert Southey, Epistle to Allan Cunningham
- And now is there a third derivative
From Mr. Colburn's composite, which late
The Arch-Pirate Galignani hath prefixed,
A spurious portrait to a faithless life,
And bearing lyingly the libelled name
Of Lawrence, impudently there insculpt.
- And now is there a third derivative
- 2001, Christopher Hitchens, "Of Sin, the Left, and Islamic Fascism", The Nation 24 September
- He didn't even save himself by lyingly claiming, as he several times did, that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Bosnia.
- 1828, Robert Southey, Epistle to Allan Cunningham
Translations
lyingly From the web:
- what does lying mean
- what lying mean
- what do lying mean
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