(a.) Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had to see off a driven and capable Everton team and Roberto Martínez was not being disingenuous when he said the final score felt like a deception.
(2) The surgeon uses the scalpel rather than the prescription pad, but this fact is deceptive.
(3) Trump, embracing the spirit of the “lock her up” mob chants at his rallies, threatened: “If I win I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation – there has never been so many lies and so much deception,” he threatened.
(4) According to the model, deception is perceived from nonverbal behavior that violates normative expectation.
(5) The ease of deception has given birth to a brand new cottage industry.
(6) Doppler ultrasound has been used to determine the pressure gradient P1-P2 across the valve in patients with aortic stenosis (AS), but since the gradient varies over time and may be deceptively low in patients with impaired cardiac output, the key parameter to obtain is the orifice area (A).
(7) This is a pattern of confusion, or deliberate deception, repeated in countless cases of missing persons who were later tracked down to Bagram.
(8) It is clear from the results of the pilot study that it was the sex offenders' belief that the polygraph would detect deception that led to the increase in disclosures.
(9) The social changes of the sixties and seventies resulted in a "tolerance at arm's length" for pedophiles, which proved to be deceptive when the Dutch government proposed to lower the age of consent in 1985.
(10) Neurologic manifestations may be deceptively mild and easily overlooked or misinterpreted, particularly in the very young, because of the remarkable resiliency of the immature central nervous system and the skull's ability to expand throughout the pre-adolescent years.
(11) Intraspecific incompatibility, although generally having a deceptively simple genetic basis, has proved to be surprisingly diverse in its physiological manifestations.
(12) But that is the deception offered up by Ranieri’s collective.
(13) There, he left a cryptic comment under his own name: “1 of the most deceptive books ever.” Fans began to reply angrily, questioning whether this could possibly be the real Alex.
(14) The row between the BBC and LSE broke on Saturday when the university accused the corporation of deception and of using its students as human shields to sneak into North Korea.
(15) In contrast to the deceptively stable appearance, the patient is at increased risk due to delayed onset, recognition, and therapy.
(16) Although physical abuse was primarily related to impression management, psychological abuse was affected by both impression management and self-deception aspects of SDR.
(17) Rachel Dolezal's deception: her 'black' identity doesn't make sense – or make her black Read more Dolezal has been a regular face at local demonstrations and on TV channels, and has made the news on numerous occasions for the graphic hate mail she has received, including nooses left at her home.
(18) False and deceptive advertising though is the grounds for court action as well as license revocation.
(19) Withheld documents · Sale of arms to Saudi Arabia · Special maritime surveillance operations · An improved kiloton bomb · Production of chemical weapons · Chemical warfare policy · Operations Grape and Tiara · Medical aspects of interrogation · Special operations and how they affect deception · Atomic energy: information received from US under military agreement · Nuclear warheads in the far east · Project R1 · SAS regiment: Borneo operations
(20) Atlético’s supporters had broken into spontaneous applause for their team as soon as Bale put Carlo Ancelotti’s side ahead, and the ovation did not stop even when the game ran away from them and the score started to feel like a deception.
Honest
Definition:
(a.) Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.
(a.) Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession.
(a.) Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.
(a.) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
(a.) To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have not yet been honest about the implications, and some damaging myths have arisen.
(2) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
(3) We didn’t take anyone’s votes for granted and we have run a very strong positive campaign.” Asked if she expected Ukip to run have Labour so close, she said: “To be honest with you I have been through more or less every scenario.
(4) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
(5) The World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016 may be the most timely opportunity to make an honest appraisal of the effectiveness of the current system to deal with the sector’s “ new normal ” of finite resources and unlimited challenges.
(6) How, in the name of all that is decent and honest in this world did we let this happen?
(7) We are prepared to be honest with people and say that we will all need to chip in a little more.” The party’s health spokesman, Norman Lamb, said: “The NHS was once the envy of the world and this pledge is the first step in restoring it to where it should be.
(8) The Sun editor also said his newspaper was wrong to use the word "tran" in a headline to describe a transexual, saying that he felt that "I don't know this is our greatest moment, to be honest".
(9) I have always struggled with the quality of my own work but despite my misgivings about the photos I am taking I can't honestly say they would have been any better two years ago.
(10) She described Luke as being “open, honest and assertive” during the interview.
(11) The physician embarking on the long-term management of burned children must have a very strong and honest relationship with the patient and family or guardians and must use all available resources, including physical and occupational therapists, social workers, and others, over the course of the effort.
(12) First, they were asked to complete them honestly, reporting accurately on their behaviour patterns.
(13) Including these incentive or responsibility payments in fixed pay is also more honest in accounting terms.
(14) Right now I think the discussion is not honest and practical, it is hysterical and political.” In contrast to the IOC, which did not contact McLaren, he said the International Paralympic Committee had been in close touch as it decides on whether to ban the Russian team.
(15) "I'm just trying to be objective and honest," he says.
(16) Camila Batmanghelidjh is one of the most kind-hearted, honest and reliable people I know, and would do anything not only for her young people but for young people in general.
(17) Another – the problem they failed to solve at the last election – is how you write an honest manifesto of your liberalism when you know and the voters know that, if you do get to see power again, it will be shared with someone else.
(18) While this is something that gives substance to the familiar cry of “Never again,” it will be up to the countries in the western Balkans, and in particular Bosnia and Herzegovina, to engage in an honest reckoning with the past, rather than narratives based on chauvinism or denial.
(19) I honestly think so many Americans are scrambling so fast just to keep up that: a) they're not aware of what they're missing; b) they don't have time to agitate."
(20) Green party leader Natalie Bennett came unstuck by trying to be honest | Letters: Sara Parkin, Brian Wilson and Tim Daniel Read more Having announced the idea of a universal £72-a-week income in January, the party has struggled to say how it would raise the billions of pounds needed to implement the policy and faced questions about whether it would harm the poorest people.