Sentence examples for Deceptive way from inspiring English sources

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Scouts didn't view him as athletic (even though he ran as fast as top pick John Wall) and called him "deceptively quick," which may be a deceptive way of saying that they didn't think Asian Americans could be athletic.

"It's a deceptive way to finance the operations of the military," Mr. Reed said.

He said: It is evident that somewhere down the line, someone... has fraudulently or perhaps negligently labelled a product in a deceptive way.

But a recent report by Naral Pro-Choice New York contends that they and similar centers do so in a deceptive way -- by using erroneous medical advice to steer clients away from abortion, contraception and the morning-after pill.

And it has done away with the deceptive way in which phone companies have traditionally hidden how much they are charging customers for cellphones by bundling that into the cost of wireless service.

It is often far easier to see that a company is pushing the accounting envelope than it is to know, conclusively, that it is doing so in a deceptive way, let alone a fraudulent one.

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Like its cobbled alleys, politics in Zanzibar twists and turns in deceptive ways.

This system works against lower-income people, and Mr. Obama has disparaged the McCain proposal in deceptive ways.

But, as the news reports make plain, it got hold of the data in particularly deceptive ways.

Officials have used specifics in extraordinarily deceptive ways, and I think it's not OK to do something like that on behalf of the public.

He also held that Block was in violation of Internal Revenue Service rules that prohibit tax preparers who are allowed to file returns electronically from marketing loans in deceptive ways.

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