deceptively

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Deceptively sophisticated and wonderfully expressive, it is full of lifelike details, without being made to resemble life.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

Figure 23.21 Deceptively simple in appearance, a leaf is a highly efficient structure.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Deceptively formless, it is music to be inhabited.

From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2022

It goes back to my original philosophy around that started with "Deceptively Delicious," which is that people are pretty set in their ways that they like to eat.

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2021

Deceptively simple in popular discourse, the concept that humanity constitutes a single people presents fundamental challenges to the way that most of the institutions of contemporary society carry out their functions.

From The Prosperity of Humankind by Baha'i International Community