Synonyms: deceptive, shoddy, misleading
Definition: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
Usage: the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm; deliberately deceptive packaging; a misleading similarity; statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading; shoddy business practices
Similar words: dishonest, dishonorable
Definition: deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
Definition: causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true
Usage: deceptive calm; a delusory pleasure
Similar words: unreal
Definition: not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary
Usage: this conversation is getting more and more unreal; the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy; the unreal world of advertising art