different between polished vs deceptive
polished
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: p?l??sht, IPA(key): /?p?l??t/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: p?l??sht, IPA(key): /?p?l??t/
- Hyphenation: pol?ished
Adjective
polished (comparative more polished, superlative most polished)
- Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
- Refined, elegant.
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
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Verb
polished
- simple past tense and past participle of polish
Anagrams
- depolish, lodeship
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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.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:deceptive
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