Sentence examples for deceptive thing from inspiring English sources

And this is a really deceptive thing in the industry and a pretty painful thing, too.

The deceptive thing about the Yankees' game last night was not the final score.

In reality, memory is a deceptive thing, and Prince's sales figures are nothing on Whitney Houston's, whose dance of wholesomeness and perdition has made her seem in hindsight more interesting than her dully canonical soul works did at the time.

It's one of the most deceptive things because it's just like this little product, and how important could it be?

Brooklyn is a deceptive affair.

Pilots are deceptive, and the thing with characters as extreme as these is that you need to get them out into the world, reacting with something other than whether their shared space is too messy or too neat, or Felix's presence is cramping Oscar's style.

The limpidity of the sentence, the exactitude of the phrase, are deceptive in that the thing they convey continues to seem elusive even after it has been communicated.

Before the Trademark Office registers a mark, they first examine the mark against prior registrations, and check for a number of factors, including whether the mark could confuse the public, or is deceptive, among many other things.

He worried that although he was a man, not telling people he was trans was deceptive and meant different things in a culture that wasn't his own.

Aldert Vrij, a psychologist at the University of Portsmouth, in England, argues that there is no such thing as "typical" deceptive behavior — "nothing as obvious as Pinocchio's growing nose".

The whole thing is absurd, deceptive and sad – but expect differences like these to be politicised by both sides of the divide as the tournament rolls on.