Tending to deceive; having power to mislead, or impress with false opinions; as, a deceptive countenance or appearance.

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

tending 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"