deceptive (s)
misleading (s)
shoddy (s)

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type s
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def designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
examples the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm
deliberately deceptive packaging
a misleading similarity
statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading
shoddy business practices
Outgoing links
Similar to dishonest, dishonorable
Derivationally related form deceptive → deceive; deceptive → deceive; deceptive → deceptiveness
Incoming links
Similar to dishonest, dishonorable
Derived from adjective misleadingly → misleading
Derivationally related form deceptiveness → deceptive; deceive → deceptive; deceive → deceptive

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