Synonyms for deceptively
| Grammar : Adv |
| Spell : dih-sep-tiv |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsɛp tɪv |
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Définition of deceptively
Origin :- 1610s, from French deceptif (late 14c.), from Medieval Latin deceptivus, from decept-, past participle stem of Latin decipere (see deceive). Earlier in this sense was deceptious (c.1600), from French deceptieux, from Medieval Latin deceptiosus, from deceptionem. Related: Deceptively; deceptiveness.
- As in shrewdly : adv astutely
- As in untruthfully : adv dishonestly
- It was a hellishly unbuildable and deceptively simple gadget, that tracer.
- Extract from : « Zero Data » by Charles Saphro
- They chatted pleasantly and in a deceptively random manner for a while.
- Extract from : « Space Viking » by Henry Beam Piper
- Trench War in its railway requirements was deceptively like peace.
- Extract from : « G. H. Q. » by Frank Fox
- These little tech-hamlets down the 101 were deceptively utopian.
- Extract from : « Makers » by Cory Doctorow
- In the lamplight they were deceptively reminiscent of the eyes of a cat.
- Extract from : « The Gray Mask » by Wadsworth Camp
- "Bang," he said deceptively, pointing with his hand in case his mother was looking.
- Extract from : « Games » by Katherine MacLean
- With a deceptively firm step she entered a room to wonder at.
- Extract from : « Red Masquerade » by Louis Joseph Vance
- For all the warmth of the day, the water was deceptively icy.
- Extract from : « Tramping on Life » by Harry Kemp
- Modern postwar pessimism, although a cult like any other, was persuasive, deceptively articulate.
- Extract from : « The Trial of Callista Blake » by Edgar Pangborn
- ComGO was a bull-necked bald man with wide blue eyes, a deceptively mild voice.
- Extract from : « Operation Haystack » by Frank Patrick Herbert
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