Sentence examples for almost deceptive from inspiring English sources

Finding the right balance between putting the patient off by being too explicit about the placebo nature of the intervention and by being so vague as to be almost deceptive is a challenging task that might benefit from well-tailored recommendations.

Google removed almost 200 "deceptive" extensions from the web store for its Chrome browser, and has started to use Chrome's safe browsing features to display warnings to users who are (likely unknowingly) about to download ad injection software.

Finally, the system is so complex, as well as mysterious, that it becomes almost deliberately deceptive - if you don't understand it, you can't criticize or change it.

It makes me mad and it almost seems deceptive that the provision was added as a rider to a tax reform bill.

That feels self-deceptive, almost hypocritical.

By cobbling together a constituency of moralist, who are philosophically opposed to the death penalty, and fiscal conservatives, who believe the death penalty is a waste of taxpayer money, a disturbingly deceptive campaign almost convinced voters to overturn the ultimate criminal penalty in both past and future cases.

The Mediterranean genus Ophrys comprises about 260 species of which almost all are sexually deceptive and usually attract males of only one species (Paulus and Gack 1990; Ayasse et al. 2000).

She may like to play and provoke, but she's almost never sneaky or deceptive.

In a test on 800 reviews of Chicago hotels, a computer was able to pick out deceptive reviews with almost 90percentt accuracy.

"It was deceptive because, in almost every instance, the information sharing was contrary to the stated privacy policies of the Facebook website and every other Facebook Beacon Activated Affiliate that had signed up for the program".

Adding water (it is the third listed ingredient) presumably gives the meat (90% pork) its brief, deceptive moistness which disappears almost immediately, after which any flavour flatlines.