Deceptive in a sentence as an adjective

Tracking through various deceptive means, even though I've made very clear that I don't wish to be tracked.

If it requires a power cord, these images are deceptive marketing.

Here, the result would turn on the ability to show that the parties sued are in fact engaged in false or deceptive advertising.

"He characterized Mr Jobs as a deceptive individual who is not completely forthright and honest.

The anti-patent crowd makes themselves look bad by trotting out examples like this and being deceptive about the actual content of the patent.

Now this humming and singing transmitted by our telephones is the only real and reliable thing you'll hear, everything else is deceptive.

Suggesting that Rails hasn't benefited from institutional support and money is just deceptive and something I can't stomach.

"This page has been locked by Wikipedia in response to deceptive practices paid for by Engulf and Devour to circumvent our community standards and mislead readers.

The "Sunday" and "Caller ID" rules basically put a deceptive veneer on the most subjective of all criteria: the "gut check".That's bad enough, but both rules also have a pernicious culture effect.

If by "if by 'if by whiskey'" you mean to circularly employ the same manipulative tactic of deceptive self-promotion, then I am certainly against it. But if by "if by 'if by whiskey'" you mean to strategically exercise the same practice out of admiration of its effective and pacifying avail to reason, then I am certainly for it. That is my position.

These days there is very little valuable information because every media company is competing for eyeballs so they each try to out-do each other with sensational, deceptive and in some cases completely false headlines.

It's often portrayed as an oppression brought in by deceptive, aggressive Boss Men; but I also think people willingly participate because it's a way to substitute mediocre/subordinate social acceptance for the much more intermittent reward/thrill of genuine work.

Deceptive definitions

adjective

causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"

See also: delusory

adjective

designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"

See also: misleading shoddy