Sentence examples similar to a deceptive value from inspiring English sources

A: Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices ("DUTPA") consumer protection statutes provide relief for deceptive acts affecting commerce.

The world must seem a prison, society a succession of traps, civilised values a deceptive veneer, life itself a battle against fate.

Brooklyn is a deceptive affair.

It was a deceptive opening.

In that world, a deceptive calm prevails.

Yet this is a deceptive comparison.

It was a deceptive high point.

Well, there is a deceptive plot afoot.

West led a deceptive club deuce.

What results is a deceptive simplicity.

But this is a deceptive calm.