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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

to mislead someone, such as to give a false or deceitful impression;

e.g. His delusive aims outsmarted the detectives.

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Similar Words

Beguiling

Deceitful

Deceptive

Delusional

Faked

Fallacious

False

Fictive

Illusory

Insidious

Specious

Subtile

Trickish

Unconfirmed

Untrustworthy

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Opposite Words

Aboveboard

Authentic

Bona fide

Candid

Certifiable

Certified

Direct

Explanatory

Forthright

Foursquare

Frank

Free-spoken

Genuine

Honest

Illuminating

Open

Openhearted

Outspoken

Plain

Plainspoken

Pukka

Real

Revealing

Revelatory

Right

Straight

Straightforward

True

Trustworthy

Truthful

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Related Words

Ambidextrous

Ambiguous

Apparent

Artful

Artificial

Assumed

Backhanded

Bent

Bewildering

Bogus

Chimerical

Circuitous

Counterfeit

Crafty

Crooked

Cunning

Deceitful

Deceptive

Devious

Dishonest

Duplicitous

Equivocal

Erroneous

Evasive

Evident

Fabulous

Faithless

Fake

False

Fanciful

Fantasied

Fantastic

Fast

Feigned

Fictional

Fictitious

Forged

Foxy

Fraudulent

Hypocritical

Ideal

Imaginal

Imaginary

Inaccurate

Inauthentic

Incorrect

Inexact

Insidious

Insincere

Jive

Knavish

Left-handed

Made-up

Make-believe

Mendacious

Mythical

Notional

Ostensible

Ostensive

Perfidious

Perplexing

Phantom

Phony

Pretend

Putative

Puzzling

Queer

Reputed

Seeming

Shady

Sham

Sharp

Shifty

Slick

Sly

Sneaking

Sneaky

Snide

Spurious

Subtile

Subtle

Supposed

Treacherous

Trick

Trickish

Tricky

Two-faced

Unauthentic

Underhand

Underhanded

Unreal

Unsound

Untrue

Untrustworthy

Untruthful

Visionary

Wily

Wrong

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