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Best answers for Deceptive – Crossword Clue


Answer: delusory


Clue Length Answer
Deceptive3 letterssly
  1. Definition: 1. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"

Deceptive3 letterstry
  1. Definition: 1. put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice; "Try on this sweater to see how it looks"

Deceptive4 letterswily
  1. Definition: 1. marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney"

Deceptive4 letterswide
  1. Definition: 1. not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth"

Deceptive5 lettersfalse
  1. Definition: 1. not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide"

Deceptive5 letterswrong
  1. Definition: 1. any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right

Deceptive6 lettersvision
  1. Definition: 1. the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"

Deceptive6 letterssubtle
  1. Definition: 1. difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze; "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul"

Deceptive6 letterssmooth
  1. Definition: 1. the act of smoothing; "he gave his hair a quick smooth"

Deceptive6 lettersunreal
  1. Definition: 1. Not genuine

Deceptive6 lettersuntrue
  1. Definition: 1. (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue"

Deceptive6 letterssneaky
  1. Definition: 1. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"

Deceptive6 letterstricky
  1. Definition: 1. not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee

Deceptive7 letterselusory

    Deceptive7 lettersseeming
    1. Definition: 1. give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect;

    Deceptive8 lettersdelusory
    1. Definition: 1. causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"

    Deceptive8 letterstortuous
    1. Definition: 1. not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"

    Deceptive8 lettersinvented

      Deceptive8 lettersillusory
      1. Definition: 1. based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes of finding a better job"; "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy"

      Deceptive8 lettersspecious

        Deceptive8 lettersdelusive
        1. Definition: 1. inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"

        Deceptive8 lettersfugitive
        1. Definition: 1. lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse"

        Deceptive8 lettersunproved

          Deceptive8 lettersspectral
          1. Definition: 1. resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"

          Deceptive8 lettersstraying
          1. Definition: 1. lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture"

          Deceptive9 lettersunfounded

            Deceptive9 letterssophistic

              Deceptive9 lettersunfactual

                Deceptive9 lettersvisionary
                1. Definition: 1. a person with unusual powers of foresight

                Deceptive9 lettersimaginary
                1. Definition: 1. not based on fact; unreal; "the falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties"- F.D.Roosevelt; "a small child's imaginary friends"; "to create a notional world for oneself"

                Deceptive9 letterserroneous
                1. Definition: 1. containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"

                Deceptive10 letterschimerical
                1. Definition: 1. produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush

                Deceptive10 lettersfallacious
                1. Definition: 1. based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information; "fallacious hope"

                Deceptive10 lettersillusional

                  Deceptive10 lettersuntruthful

                    Deceptive10 lettersunorthodox
                    1. Definition: 1. independent in behavior or thought; "she led a somewhat irregular private life"; "maverick politicians"

                    Deceptive10 lettersmisleading
                    1. Definition: 1. designed 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"; "shoddy business practices"

                    Deceptive10 lettersfraudulent
                    1. Definition: 1. intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"

                    Deceptive11 letterssophistical

                      Deceptive11 letterstreacherous
                      1. Definition: 1. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

                      Deceptive12 lettersquestionable
                      1. Definition: 1. able to be refuted

                      Deceptive13 lettersdisappointing

                        Deceptive13 lettersunsubstantial

                          Deceptive14 letterssupposititious

                            Deceptive18 lettersself-contradictory


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