[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

deceptive \decep"tive\, a. cf. f. d'eceptif. see deceive.
   tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with
   false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.
   1913 webster

         language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper
         reality from our eyes.                   --trench.
   1913 webster

   deceptive cadence mus., a cadence on the subdominant, or
      in some foreign key, postponing the final close.
      1913 webster
see also:
deceive deceptive cadence 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

deceptive
     adj 1: causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe
            what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"
            syn: delusory
     2: tending 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" syn: misleading
see also:
delusory misleading 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

120 moby thesaurus words for "deceptive":
   barmecidal, barmecide, aberrant, abroad, adrift, airy, all abroad,
   all off, all wrong, amiss, apparent, apparently sound,
   apparitional, askew, astray, at fault, autistic, awry, beguiling,
   beside the mark, bogus, casuistic, catchy, chimeric, colorable,
   corrupt, counterfeit, deceitful, deceiving, defective, deluding,
   delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, deviant,
   deviational, deviative, dishonest, disingenuous, distorted,
   dreamlike, dreamy, dubious, elusive, empty, errant, erring,
   erroneous, evasive, fake, fallacious, false, fantastic, faultful,
   faulty, fishy, flawed, fraudulent, hallucinatory, heretical,
   heterodox, hollow, illogical, illusional, illusionary, illusive,
   illusory, imaginary, insincere, jesuitic, misleading, not right,
   not true, off, off the track, ostensible, out, overrefined,
   oversubtle, peccant, perverse, perverted, phantasmagoric,
   phantasmal, phantom, philosophistic, plausible, pseudo,
   questionable, seeming, self-contradictory, self-deceptive,
   self-deluding, shifty, slippery, sophistic, sophistical, specious,
   spectral, spurious, straying, supposititious, trickish, tricksy,
   tricky, unactual, unfactual, unfounded, unorthodox, unproved,
   unreal, unreliable, unsubstantial, untrue, untruthful, visionary,
   wide, wrong

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