Sentence examples for had been deceptive from inspiring English sources

They also asked if the data collection had violated a reasonable expectation of privacy and if the practice had been deceptive or illegal.

Robert Messemer, an F.B.I. agent who testified that in two incidents Mr. Lee had been deceptive, admitted that his account of those two incidents was false.

For nearly thirty years, Steele had worked as a close ally of the United States, and he couldn't imagine why anyone would believe that he had been deceptive.

He still maintained that Dr. Lee had been deceptive because he had not been open about "the full nature and scope" of his contacts.

In 1998, he was put under permanent injunction barring him from the offer and sale of cooperative apartments, after a State Supreme Court judge determined he had been deceptive and abusive in previous cooperative conversions and sales.

Where Johnson had been deceptive, the new President would be straightforward; where Johnson had been angry, he would be mellow; where Johnson had been secretive, he would be open.

"The Liberal party has been deceptive," Browne said.

Interrogators say that his seeming candor may have been deceptive.

The team's owners have now charged that Picard has been deceptive in employing that tactic.

Because they've been deceptive year after year after year," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.).

"There could have been deceptive information when calls were placed to the facility".