deceptiveness

Examples of deceptive

deceptive
Some targets emit few relevant behaviors - because they are inactive or, in some cases, even deceptive.
The low figure for repetition is somewhat deceptive because teacher repetitions can, and frequently do, co-occur with the other feedback categories.
Its notions of honour and valour were deceptive, as was its concept of civility.
This would make quantitative comparisons across regions deceptive.
Also, the authentic cadence of this 'addio' pointedly responds to the deceptive ones of the three 'cantiamo' phrases.
Specifically, the deceptive object task involves a mismatch between an object's presupposed identity and its actual identity.
In other words, economists fear reputational spillover effects of deceptive practices even if only a few of their tribe practice it.
The apparent simplicity of the act of repeating a nonword is, however, deceptive.
Given scene coherence, the subjective impression of concentrating on only one thing at a time may be real but deceptive.
Of course, it was precisely this deceptive quality of sensory information that contemporary moral and natural philosophers harped upon.
Tree diagrams can certainly be useful, but they are limited and potentially deceptive.
I imagine the deceptive safety of the people inhabiting the castle.
The results obtained seem to have a remarkably rich structure nonetheless; however they are somewhat deceptive, as consideration of the case with complex coefficients reveals.
Chapter 7 takes a somewhat different perspective, focusing on the issues of categorical perception and deceptive signalling.
Interaction and communication among animals are often deceptive and manipulative, as well as cooperative.
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