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Example sentences for "deceptively"

Lexicographically close words:
decentralized; decentralizing; deception; deceptions; deceptive; decerned; decesse; decet; deceyued; decia
  1. The principle is deceptively simple: member countries purchase the currencies of other member countries (USA, Germany, the UK, etc.

  2. It was wrong of the EU to promise what it can never deliver and couch it in deceptively ear soothing phrases.

  3. The illusory world we think we see around us, deceptively brought to us by our untrustworthy senses, leads us to conceptual thought and to logical categories as a means to attempt its "understanding.

  4. As Father Bland, in the back row beside (my late acquaintance) James Mulhouse Doherty, would appear deceptively beyond life-size if he were wearing his magic vestments and saying a Mass.

  5. Modern postwar pessimism, although a cult like any other, was persuasive, deceptively articulate.

  6. My appearance was so deceptively respectable, and my air so easy, that not a question was asked me.

  7. The man lowered the newspaper and gazed at the questioner out of deceptively sluggish eyes.

  8. The one set become living men and women; the other amount to little more than mechanical cases, deceptively painted automatons.

  9. That caused him to reply that, at sight of her, he had believed that it was not really she, but that his imagination was deceptively putting her image before him in the place where he had met her yesterday.

  10. Yet he did not allow himself to be deceived by tricks of imagination, but knew that fancy alone was deceptively depicting before his eyes what he had really seen there the day before.

  11. The two species figured, though belonging to such distinct and even remote genera, have acquired almost identical tints and markings so as to be deceptively alike.

  12. Some other groups of beetles, as the Elateridae and Eucnemidae, also deceptively mimic malacoderms.

  13. By his eagerness, all objects are deceptively foreshortened; by his intensity each object is viewed as detached; so that essentially and relatively every thing is misseen by him.

  14. Ch'an koan, and expressionistic still-lifes--with brushstrokes at once skillfully controlled and deceptively casual.

  15. These deceptively simple lines capture an intersection of the timeless and the ephemeral.

  16. The deceptively fragile appearance of the house makes it appear at first an impractical invention for a land faced with recurrent earthquakes.

  17. Now he looked straight into the muddy and deceptively lazy eyes of the man from headquarters.

  18. Suddenly he stopped squarely in front of her, and again she had an uncomfortable feeling that his deceptively lazy eyes were reading her thoughts.

  19. In the apparent vacancy of that soft-swelling knoll to the west looms up the phantom bulk of an antelope, disproportionately large and deceptively black against the sun.

  20. Then he turned to Strang, who was standing in the door behind him, watching his actions with deceptively mild interest.

  21. After about two weeks--for days melted deceptively into each other at Tahiti--the crew was again summoned before Wilson, again to declare themselves unshaken in their obstinate refusal to sail again with Captain Guy.


  22. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deceptively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.