deceptive

Adjective

• 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
    

• causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true
  • deceptive calm
    
  • a delusory pleasure
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  misleading , shoddy , delusory