Sentence examples for deceitful appearance from inspiring English sources

In his "Dissertation on the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality of Mankind," he wrote, "In the midst of so much philosophy, humanity, and civilization, and of such sublime codes of morality, we have nothing to show for ourselves but a frivolous and deceitful appearance, honor without virtue, reason without wisdom, and pleasure without happiness".

Many schools employ a variety of manipulative, if not deceitful, methods to alter their appearance before rankings organizations, especially the U.S. News and World Report, as my colleague Richard Pérez-Peña Pérez-Peñart in Wednesdands TImes.

The fine art of keeping up appearances may seem shallow and deceitful, the very embodiment of denial.

According to this interpretation, suspension of judgment (epochê) is the best way to avoid overhasty commitment to opinions (doxai), since the appearances on which they are based can be deceitful.

It's predatory femme fatale overload, with Eva Green's deceitful Ava Lord, a newly hard-boiled Nancy Callahan (Jessica Alba and Rosario Dawsonn's Gail (not to mention Lady Gaga) all making an appearance.

How deceitful!

It is deceitful.

It's deceitful".

"Their movement is deceitful.

This is cowardly and deceitful.

It is deceitful and selfish.