deceptiveness

Example Sentences

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"The omission and/or deceptiveness of this essential information" in advertising could influence consumers' decisions and expose them, "minors in particular", to the risk of unknowingly damaging their health, it said.

From Reuters • Apr. 18, 2023

Whether playing in tight or pushed out past the hashmarks, Dixon’s speed and pre-snap deceptiveness has resulted in two sacks.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2022

And when a subtitle claims, “I was tormented by adverse reactions to my appearance,” even as you watch her deliberately provoking responses, the contradiction seems designed to underline the deceptiveness of the medium.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021

In a recent report, Boise State University professor and polygraph expert Charles Honts concluded police used the polygraph as a “psychological rubber hose” rather than as a tool to detect deceptiveness.

From Washington Times • Jan. 29, 2016

On the far horizon the wavering mysteries of the mirage appeared, marvelous in deceptiveness, mystical, alluring, the very spirits of the Far West, appearing to move before their eyes in giant pantomime.

From The Covered Wagon by Hough, Emerson