Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to deceive; deceitful.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Tending deceive; delusive.
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- adjective obsolete Tending to
deceive .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When matter forms in the ears, it is found to be more deeply seated than might be supposed, for all parts that are pulpy, and consist of juicy flesh, prove deceptious in such a case.
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This is perhaps the most deceptious form in which an eruptive disease can be communicated from the cow, and it certainly requires some attention in discriminating it.
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This is perhaps the most deceptious form in which an eruptive disease can be communicated from the cow, and it certainly requires some attention in discriminating it.
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Since there is yet a credence in my heart, An esferance so obstinately strong, That does invert the attest of eyes and ears; As if those organs had deceptious functions, Created only to calumniate ....
Madam Will You Talk Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1967
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He expressed a very considerable degree of displeasure, when he was in a state of sanity, at his name being affixed to a narrative, which he knew only by report, as being about to be published, and which subsequently did appear, under a deceptious mask.
The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811) David Dickinson Mann
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This is perhaps the most deceptious form in which an eruptive disease can be communicated from the cow, and it certainly requires some attention in discriminating it.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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_ -- "You will be hanged some day, Miss Gatty, if you go on in this deceptious manner."
Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island Julia de Winton
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There was every appearance of a termination of the reef a few miles further to the north-east, but the glare of the sun was so deceptious that I preferred returning by the way we came; and having a leading fresh wind, we were by noon steering between the south-west end of the reef m and the woody islands 2 and 3 of Claremont Isles.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King
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This is perhaps the most deceptious form in which an eruptive disease can be communicated from the cow, and it certainly requires some attention in discriminating it.
II. Further Observations on the Variolae Vaccinae, or Cow-Pox. 1799 1909
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There is on one of these hills a very large stone, which at a certain distance presents in color and form a deceptious similarity to an enormous-sized seal.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853
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