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adjective

Definition of deludingnext
as in misleading
tending or having power to deceive the deluding appearance of the surface of the river, which is actually quite fast-moving

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deluding

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verb

present participle of delude
as in fooling
to cause to believe what is untrue we deluded ourselves into thinking that the ice cream wouldn't affect our diet

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deluding
  1. fooling
  2. deceptive
  3. false
  4. deceiving
Verb
  • Liverpool are regularly seeing apps that replicate the appearance of genuine tickets — fooling not just first-time visitors to Anfield.
    James Pearce, The Athletic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The ultimate aim is, with the use of multiple layers of such transformations, fooling malware classifiers into thinking malicious code is, in fact, totally benign.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
Definition of fooling
Adjective
  • The Franklin County and River Valley Coalition recently accused officials of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority and a division of the building authority of being deceptive and called for an investigation.
    Alex Golden, Axios, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Penelope in the Odyssey says that dreams that pass through the gate of ivory are deceptive, while those that pass through the gate of horn are real.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of deceptive
Adjective
  • Users from a diverse range of perspectives would then reach an agreement on whether content is false, Kaplan said in a blog post.
    Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Those who disputed the accuracy of an account and thought their report had been corrected instead see the same false information reappear without explanation, the agency found.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2025
Definition of false
Verb
  • Arizona's temperature can be deceiving and deadly.
    Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2025
  • In July, Boeing agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud for deceiving the Federal Aviation Administration regulators who approved the 737 Max.
    Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of deceiving
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