Sentence examples similar to a deceptive assertion from inspiring English sources

"In doing so, he made the cynical and deceptive assertion that reform would somehow enable future bailouts -- when he knows that it would do just the opposite".

According to this objection, one is not lying when one makes a deceptive untruthful ironic statement ('irony lie'), or a deceptive untruthful joke ('joke lie'), or a deceptive untruthful fiction ('fiction lie'), or deceptive untruthful acting ('acting life'), since in none of these cases is one making an assertion.

Brooklyn is a deceptive affair.

It was a deceptive opening.

In that world, a deceptive calm prevails.

Yet this is a deceptive comparison.

West led a deceptive club deuce.

But this is a deceptive calm.

A deceptive day, sunny but bitingly cold.

It was a deceptive high point.

It was a deceptive high point.