deceptive

adj 1: causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe

what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"

[syn: {delusory}]

2: tending to deceive or mislead either deliberately or

inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the

storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading

similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are

misleading" [syn: {misleading}]