Sentence examples for deceptive by from inspiring English sources

Her softly spoken demeanour is deceptive; by all accounts she calls the shots.

West tried to be deceptive by throwing the spade queen and keeping the diamond king, the spade king and a low spade.

Under F.T.C. guidelines, companies and the celebrities they are sponsoring risk being deceptive by not noting that these endorsements are advertisements, Ms. Engle said.

Health officials cautioned that the stability in the number of new infections may be deceptive by masking increases among gay, bisexual and heterosexual people in some areas.

(The "Bangerz" title is deceptive, by the way – the record opens with the wettest possible ballad, Adore You, and finds room for others along the way).

But since subliminal messages are regarded as unethical by the ad industry and unfairly deceptive by the Federal Communications Commission, Mr. Bush should go further.

A psychologist and former special agent for the F.B.I., she is trained to detect a range of voluntary and involuntary signs that a person is being deceptive by assessing facial action, involuntary microexpressions, body language and more.

Not long afterward — mischievously soon, in fact — Corinne sits in bed, beside her husband, and asks, "Why don't we believe in tongues?" Once the confusion clears, we realize that she is talking about the gift of Pentecostal babble; viewed as deceptive by Ethan and his fellow-worshippers, it is practiced, on the quiet, by Corinne's friend Annika (Dagmara Dominczyk).