Vocabulary
Deceptive
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
giving an appearance or impression different from the true one; misleading.
Urdu meaning
فریب، دغا بازی، گمراہ کن
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- But the excess is deceptive.
- `She was as docile as Jiang Qing seemed with Mao an impression I later learned was deceptive in both cases.
Synonyms
misleading, illusory, illusive, illusionary, ambiguous, deceiving, delusive, distorted, specious
Curator example
“he put the question with deceptive casualness”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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