DECEPTIVE Crossword Clue & Answer

We found 353 solutions for 'DECEPTIVE' with 3 to 17 letters.
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The clue "deceptive" last appeared in the L.A. Times Daily crossword on September 8, 2021. The correct answer for this puzzle is "SNEAKY", a 6-letter word.

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Top answers for DECEPTIVE crossword clue from newspapers

SNEAKY
ILLUSORY
MISLEADING

Definition of deceptive

  • causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true; "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"; designed 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"; "shoddy business practices"

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Solution ILLUSORY is our most searched for solution by our visitors. Solution ILLUSORY is 8 letters long. We have 60 further solutions of the same word length.

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There are 353 solutions. The longest is INDISTINGUISHABLE with 17 letters, and the shortest is DIM with 3 letters.

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Solutions are between 3 and 17 letters long.

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