Adjective: deceptive di'sep-tiv
- Causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true
"deceptive calm";
- delusory
- Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
"the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging";
- misleading
See also: dishonest, dishonorable [US], dishonourable [Brit, Cdn], unreal
Encyclopedia: Deceptive