deceptive
Example Sentences
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The move comes half a year following a costly court loss, when a French appeals court judged the supermarket chain's advertisements were deceptive.
From Barron's
The vessels conceal their role in shipping oil by using deceptive tactics, such as switching off their radio signals to obscure their movements and transferring cargo to other vessels in poorly monitored waters.
Liu retaliated against them after the employees refused to engage in deceptive business practices and raised concerns, the lawsuits say.
From Los Angeles Times
It said the platform's blue tick system was "deceptive" because the firm was not "meaningfully verifying users".
From BBC
In a spot that AT&T introduced in October, actor Luke Wilson pulls a newspaper out of a tumbleweed and reads, “T-Mobile most challenged for deceptive ads.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
