Crossword-Solution: DECEPTIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deceptive | a. | Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance. |
We have 128 clues for the answer “DECEPTIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Describes the Black Knight's manner: Ivanhoe. | 1 answer |
| Machiavellian | 19 answers |
| Illusive | 26 answers |
| Deceiving | 27 answers |
| mendacious | 27 answers |
| specious | 28 answers |
| formalistic | 30 answers |
| postulated | 30 answers |
| Not straight. | 30 answers |
| Presupposed | 31 answers |
| commonly believed | 31 answers |
| reputed | 31 answers |
| taken as known | 31 answers |
| suppositional | 32 answers |
| taken for granted | 33 answers |
| putative | 34 answers |
| Fallacious | 34 answers |
| riddly | 35 answers |
| presumed | 38 answers |
| illegitimate | 41 answers |
| Concluded | 42 answers |
| Unscrupulous | 42 answers |
| sneaking | 43 answers |
| Conniving | 44 answers |
| conjectural | 45 answers |
| Duplicitous | 45 answers |
| Sneaky | 45 answers |
| fraudulent | 45 answers |
| Granted | 46 answers |
| Unethical | 46 answers |
| Presumptive | 47 answers |
| Seeming | 48 answers |
| Stealthy? | 48 answers |
| Alleged. | 49 answers |
| suppositious | 49 answers |
| blear | 50 answers |
| Bogus | 50 answers |
| Speculative | 51 answers |
| spurious | 51 answers |
| Guileful | 51 answers |
| Unfaithful | 52 answers |
| Illogical | 52 answers |
| Baseless | 53 answers |
| erroneous | 53 answers |
| Surreptitious | 53 answers |
| Unfounded | 55 answers |
| undeterminable | 55 answers |
| Insidious | 55 answers |
| Canny | 56 answers |
| contestable | 56 answers |
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DECEPTIVE (5)
But these transparent natures are often deceptive in their depth; those pebbles at the bottom of the fountain are farther from us than we think.
Stephen, though deceptive for no unworthy purpose, was deceptive after all; and whatever good results grace such strategy if it succeed, it seldom draws admiration, especially when it fails.
Some prepossession, such as starts amiss, by but a hair’s-breadth at the shoulder-blade, the arm o’ the feeler, dip he ne’er so brave; and so leads waveringly, lets fall wide o’ the mark his finger meant to find, and fix truth at the bottom, that deceptive speck.” The poet could hardly have employed a more effective metaphor in which to embody the idea of mental swerving.
Twenty minutes later, when Laura came out and went downstairs, a fine straight figure in her black evening gown, the Sieur de Marsac--that hard-bitten Huguenot, whose middle-aged shabbiness was but the outward and deceptive seeming of the longest head and the best sword in France--emerged cautiously from the passageway and stood listening until her footsteps were heard descending the front stairs.
The owner is obliged to enter into those deceptive garments surreptitiously from the rear, by stratagem, as it were.
Quotes with DECEPTIVE (3)
Few things are more deceptive than memories.
Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in the future. The silent darkness, the featureless unknown, were more dread than all the terrors that imagination had mustered. Peering, the mind could see nothing sure, nothing in all human experience to be grasped as certain, except uncertainty itself; nothing but obscurity gendered by a thick haze of theories. Man's science was a mere mist of numbers; his phil…
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings of this world. It is all worthless, fleeting, illusory, and deceptive, like a mirage. You may be proud, wise, and fine, but death will wipe you off the face of the earth as though you were no more than mice burrowing under the floor, and your posterity, your history, your immortal geniuses will burn or freeze together with the earthly globe.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1946–2015).