(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.
Hustler
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) But yes, the thing about Brooke is that she’s the classic American hustler,” she says.
(2) Their barking drew an entertaining rebuke from Ta-Nehisi Coates to which we cannot resist linking, however: Carlson's descent from reasonably credible magazine journalist to inept race hustler is well mapped territory.
(3) Little documented, the scene was caught by Colin MacInnes in his 1957 novel City of Spades, whose hero is a West African hustler called Johnny Fortune.
(4) Now, after two years of infamy which battered his reputation and his company – he has stepped down as CEO of AngelHack and is being sued by his co-founder over other disputes – Gopman, a self-described hustler, seeks redemption.
(5) Peta is as guilty of doing so as Hustler magazine, which famously put a picture of a woman being pushed head-first through a meat grinder to make hamburger in the 1970s, one album cover shortly afterwards displayed a woman's naked, clingfilm-wrapped body sectioned off like cuts of meat in a butchers shop.
(6) It is no accident that so many of Twain's characters are hucksters and hustlers, or that deception and opportunism are abiding themes in his writing.
(7) In a city of hustlers, tricksters, and go-getters, where the right dose of swag and gumption gets you farther than a college degree can, Furo is a bumbling non-entity.
(8) He'd been a chess hustler: he used to beat everybody when he was 12, grown men in the parks of Manhattan.
(9) It was led by the hustlers and crazies, outsiders even amongst gays, who had nothing to lose.” In fact, national monument status gives protection from destruction and development to “ objects of historic or scientific interest ”.
(10) In Petare, a giant slum overlooking Caracas from the east, hustlers known as buhoneros sell their goods at a busy intersection.
(11) Like every appletini-swigging SATC devotee who swore watching Carrie or Samantha was like seeing themselves, the Entourage audience gravitated quickly to Vince's effortless starpower, to E's everyman, to Turtle's dogged hustler and to Drama's … OK, only a member of the Screen Actors Guild could truly empathise with the relentless humiliation of Johnny Drama, but it was impossible not to celebrate his few small instances of victory.
(12) When Larry Flint published cartoons in Hustler magazine depicting Andrea in a sexually explicit way, she sued the publisher, but lost.
(13) Alongside the mildewed copies of Oui , Hustler and Playboy , were stacks of Film Quarterly whose pages were charged with erotica, drama, and – best of all – a lot of European men .
(14) On the seniors circuit, he became known as a hustler – challenging tough opponents to tennis matches where he would handicap himself in an entertaining way, playing with a frying pan, for instance.
(15) An autobiography of his teenage years, it comprised more raw images of drug use and adolescent sex, as well as portraits of young hustlers working Times Square in New York, with a little of the edginess leavened by family snapshots and portraits.
(16) So naturally Dan Snyder has spun up the victimization engines and tried to run them with the smooth purr of the Fox News machine – where honest, hard-working real American traditions are constantly assailed by incredibly powerful opportunistic race hustlers and PC police, like Native Americans.
(17) In a seventeen-month field study thirty-three male were interviewed and tentatively classified into four categories: call-boys, street prostitutes, bar hustlers, and kept boys.
(18) And once that happens, the source of all this rage naturally springs not from the actions of the police but an opportunistic claque of Fox and the right’s favorite bêtes noire: the “race hustlers”.
(19) The key distinction is between the attention-hustlers – the pure troll howlers who play this grotesque game for its own sake and their own – and the true believers.
(20) Marriage equality is a hustler's feeding frenzy of gold-diggers.