deceivingly

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A defensively challenged team with deceivingly solid record not matched by 23rd-ranked goal differential of minus-11.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2023

The challenge then becomes how to get an electron to scatter its tracks so deceivingly.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 20, 2023

Although leaf litter can look deceivingly stagnant, a microscopic world of activity teems beneath the foliage.

From National Geographic • Oct. 12, 2023

I don't keep port on hand, so I skipped it altogether here and the results were still strikingly, palate deceivingly good.

From Salon • Jun. 4, 2023

But the saint, at the revelation of the Spirit, understood what they had done, and pronounced that these scorners had deceivingly, yet not falsely, declared of their companion's death.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by O'Leary, James