deceptive

deceptive englannista suomeksi

1. pettävä

1. petollinen, harhaanjohtava

deceptive englanniksi

1. Likely or attempting to deceive.

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2. (quote-book)24|page=521|url=https://archive.org/details/anthropometamorp00jbjo/page/521|passage=(..) others declare that no Creature can be made or transmuted into a better or worse, or transformed into another species (..) and ''Martinus Delrio'' the Jesuit accounts this degeneration of Man into a Beast to be an illusion, deceptive and repugnant to Nature;

3. {{quote-text|en|year=1789|translator=Thomas Holcroft|title=The History of My Own Times|author=Frederick the Great|location=London|publisher=G.G.J. and J. Robinson|section=Part 1, Chapter 12, p. 163|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxj3at&view=1up&seq=451

4. 1846, (w), ''Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord,'' London: John W. Parker, 2nd ed., 1847, Preliminary Essay, Chapter(nbs)2, p.(nbs)10,https://archive.org/details/notesonmiracleslond00tren/page/10

language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes

5. {{quote-book|en|year=1978|author=Susan Sontag|title=Illness as Metaphor|location=New York|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|chapter=2|page=13|url=https://archive.org/details/illnessasmetapho00susa