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DECEPTIVELY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does deceptively mean?
• DECEPTIVELY (adverb)
The adverb DECEPTIVELY has 1 sense:
1. in a misleading way
Familiarity information: DECEPTIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a misleading way
Synonyms:
deceivingly; deceptively; misleadingly
Context example:
the exam looked deceptively easy
Pertainym:
deceptive (causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true)
Context examples
His sliding gait had been deceptively swift, but it was as nothing to the speed at which he now ran.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A distinctive variant of fibrosarcoma, characterized by an admixture of heavily collagenized and myxoid zones, deceptively bland spindled cells with a whorling growth pattern and arcades of curvilinear blood vessels.
(Low Grade Fibromyxoid Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
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