deceptiveness

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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

I can’t feel much anger toward Santos for his deceptiveness, just a bit of sorrow.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2022

Once Ray is backed into a corner, however, he reveals a streak of deceptiveness that Mr. Breaux makes equally believable — while still maintaining a sense of forlorn desperation that keeps his character sympathetic.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2016

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

The chief cause of his deceptiveness was the fabrication of circumstantial narrative, and the invention of exact numerical accounts.

From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas