"deceptive person" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it in a variety of contexts in order to describe someone who is deliberately misleading or untruthful. For example, "The prosecutor argued that the defendent was a deceptive person who had used false statements to mislead the jury."
She's also a deceptive person, as I guess a lot of alcoholics probably are.
A deceptive person will equivocate: "That depends on why they did it".
In the print series, "Dirty John" is stylishly designed, with large photographs of its subjects and expensive real estate; it features pull quotes such as "The most devious, dangerous, deceptive person I ever met," styled like tabloid headlines, in maroon capital letters.
One was the punishment question: "What do you think should happen to the person who did this?" Schneider recorded in her notes that an innocent person will give a draconian answer, such as, "They should be suspended/expelled/fired". A deceptive person will equivocate: "That depends on why they did it". Another question involves baiting the subject with supposedly incriminating evidence.
"Your questions have to be very clear so it doesn't allow a deceptive person what I call 'wriggle room'," van Aperen explains.
Unsurprisingly, Syrian state-television was quickly to condemn the 'Gay Girl in Damascus' hoax -- as it should be -- but this hoax shouldn't be taken out of its context of being one deceptive person who acted in a rather unprofessional and unethical matter.
However, contrary to our hypotheses, they also demonstrated more immediacy than truth tellers by using both first-person singular (the mean for truthful first-person singular = .2964; the mean for deceptive first-person singular = 1.1760) and first-person plural pronouns (the mean for truthful first-person plural = 9.4136; the mean for deceptive first-person plural = 10.6788).
Mr. Khan responded no to all the questions, and his answers were not found to be deceptive, the person said.
In an email response, Arieff, who worked over two decades at Reuters, including seven years covering the U.N, said he found Grenell "to be the most dishonest and deceptive press person I ever worked with".
The government said he did not deserve leniency because he was a "fundamentally deceptive and dishonest person" who had lied under oath in a deposition and had tried to cover up his crimes.
Table 4 Variables (LIWC Categories) with Examples from Transcripts Variable Name Direction Truthful Transcript Deceptive Transcript 3rd person singular T > D She's right on the floor.
