[adjective] causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure" Synonyms:delusory
[adjective] tending to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading" Synonyms:misleading