1. (

• deceptive ,
• delusory

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

2. (

• deceptive ,
• misleading

) 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" ;