Sentence examples for seems deceptive from inspiring English sources
"seems deceptive" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is typically used when you are speaking about someone who appears to be telling falsehoods or hiding something. For example: "John's story seemed convincing at first, but upon further inspection, it seems deceptive."
The spacious reception area, with its plants and paintings, seems deceptive after patients cross a portal into crowded passageways.
The work's title is surely meant as ironic, for even the bumptious sizzle of the scherzo seems deceptive.
It seems deceptive, which is exactly what Foodiness is all about.
Their individually appropriate methods are beyond ordinary comprehension and may even seem deceptive, but they are justified by the superior insight of these saviours.
The election officials said more than 80percentt of the electorate had cast votes, a number the experts said also seemed deceptive in an atmosphere of fear, resignation and cynicism about the political process.
It only works as a deception which seems, well, deceptive.
"Their general work force data released by Amazon seems intentionally deceptive, as the company did not include the race or gender breakout of their technical work force," Rainbow PUSH wrote in a statement to The New York Times published Friday.
To someone uninitiated to the Orwellian nature of recent legislation, that phrase might have seemed downright deceptive.
Koch International Classics KIC-7597; CONCIERTOIERTO BARROCO" might seem a deceptive title for a disc devoted mostly to contemporary works.
If a unified account is sought, then it seems self-deception cannot require that the self-deceptive belief itself be desired.
Somehow it seems wrong, unethical, deceptive.
