deceptive

Adjective
  1. Causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true (synset 301945592)
    "deceptive calm"; "a delusory pleasure"
    similar to: unreal - not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary
    same as: delusory
  2. Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently (synset 301226942)
    "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"
    similar to: dishonest, dishonorable - deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
    same as: misleading

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