deceptive

adjective

1 distances over water are very deceptive:

misleading, illusory, illusive, illusionary, ambiguous, deceiving, delusive, distorted, specious.

2 deceptive practices account for at least half of the offences:

deceitful, duplicitous, fraudulent, counterfeit, sham, bogus, cheating, underhand, cunning, crafty, sly, guileful, scheming, perfidious, treacherous, Machiavellian, dissembling, disingenuous, untrustworthy, unscrupulous, unprincipled, dishonest, untruthful, lying, mendacious, insincere, false;

informal crooked, sharp, shady, slippery, sneaky, tricky, foxy;

British, informal bent;

South African, informal slim;

archaic subtle, hollow-hearted;

rare false-hearted, double-faced, truthless, Punic.

▷antonyms honest.

deceptive Oxford Dictionary of English