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Recent Examples of deceptively
Trump alleged the network’s 60 Minutes deceptively edited an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris.
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Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
The backstory is deceptively important in any question, especially for technical topics.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2026
Open stretches are prone to blowing snow, and freezing rain can make the road deceptively slick.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 24 Jan. 2026
What follows is a grief drama of a different kind, one part melodrama, one part soap opera, all of it original and with a deceptively light touch.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 22 Jan. 2026
But motion picture academy voters ultimately warmed to Fanning’s richly nuanced (and deceptively tricky) performance as a Hollywood starlet trying to prove herself as a serious dramatic actress.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
What comes next At its best, Thrive is doing something deceptively simple.
—Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Often, those symptoms can deceptively improve for a time, before causing fatal complications within two to four days of eating the mushroom.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
The fact that money is being deceptively extracted from Americans and funneled to foreign governments and crime rings, harming economic security, stoking fear and empowering bad foreign actors, is a national emergency.
—Caroline Melear, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
The backstory is deceptively important in any question, especially for technical topics.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Jan. 2026
Open stretches are prone to blowing snow, and freezing rain can make the road deceptively slick.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 24 Jan. 2026
What follows is a grief drama of a different kind, one part melodrama, one part soap opera, all of it original and with a deceptively light touch.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 22 Jan. 2026
But motion picture academy voters ultimately warmed to Fanning’s richly nuanced (and deceptively tricky) performance as a Hollywood starlet trying to prove herself as a serious dramatic actress.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
What comes next At its best, Thrive is doing something deceptively simple.
—Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Often, those symptoms can deceptively improve for a time, before causing fatal complications within two to four days of eating the mushroom.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2026
The fact that money is being deceptively extracted from Americans and funneled to foreign governments and crime rings, harming economic security, stoking fear and empowering bad foreign actors, is a national emergency.
—Caroline Melear, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for deceptively
Adverb
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Some families were reportedly subjected to threats and pressure to falsely attribute responsibility for the killings to protesters.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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According to prosecutors, Burkhalter falsely said those investments were backed by real estate holdings.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The scenes at the reunion are simply but artfully shot in black and white, including a revealing conversation the men’s wives and partners have about living with them that gently expands the perspectives brought into the film’s portrait.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
29 Jan. 2026
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The model must know the rules well enough to know how to break them artfully.—
Amir Husain,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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But through no fault of the actress, the film starts to sag as Erika morphs from intoxicating vixen to deceitfully manipulative monster.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Jan. 2026
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Many homeowners consider white paint a safe choice, but settling on the right tone for your space is deceitfully tricky.—
Betsy Cribb Watson,
Southern Living,
15 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Additional uses of geolocation data, the providers say, include proving a bettor is dishonestly disputing credit card charges, revealing sign-up bonus abuse or showing that someone is illegally making proxy wagers across state lines.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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As naive as that may sound in a world where so many self-evident rights and wrongs are being routinely, dishonestly evaluated and reevaluated, the series elevates simple truths in ways that are downright inspirational.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
4 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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For instance, Salt River Project and ASU have parked a device atop a cooling tower in one of the utility’s power plants, leveraging the artificially humid environment around the tower to sip on some of the escaping vapor.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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The company shipped patients excessive volumes of devices each month, using these fraudulent billings to artificially inflate the company’s financial reporting and its stock price, the government alleged.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
22 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Slender Man himself emerged years earlier, in 2009, from a chilling online illustration depicting an unnaturally tall, faceless figure with long, tentacle-like limbs.—
Jessica Sager,
PEOPLE,
24 Nov. 2025
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The title refers to the series' universal optimism pandemic that has somehow swept the planet, creating one unnaturally cheerful global society out of the planet's billions of inhabitants.—
Jeff Spry,
Space.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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The special’s opening half-hour is a series of meaningful opening salvos like this, cannily shoehorned into catch-up anecdotes, each of them laying the groundwork for where Nanjiani ultimately wants the hour to land without tipping his hand in one direction or another.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
19 Dec. 2025
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Although that self-realization is timeless, Roder cannily positions it to speak to contemporary times.—
Stephen Saito,
Variety,
23 Nov. 2025
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“Deceptively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deceptively. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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