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deceivingly
adverb
uk /dɪˈsiː.vɪŋ.li/ us /dɪˈsiː.vɪŋ.li/
in a way that makes you believe something that is not true:
The bath looked deceivingly smaller than it actually was, which was great.
The list of ingredients was deceivingly simple.
Though deceivingly delicate at first glance, the chair is surprisingly sturdy.
The words are deceivingly simple, but they remain so inspiring.
The flavours are deceivingly complex, but the dish is easy enough to prepare and only has a few ingredients.
In places the landscape can be deceivingly steep.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Dishonest
artificiality
bad faith
be rotten to the coreidiom
bent
cowboy
false
finagle
fishy
fly-by-night
fraudulence
mendacious
mendaciously
misleading
misleadingly
perjured
under false pretencesphrase
underhand
unreliability
unreliable
unscrupulous
Related word
deceive Synonymdeceptively
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