causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; deceptive calm; a delusory pleasure
[ Syn: delusory ]
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; shoddy business practices
[ Syn: misleading , shoddy ]