Ambiguous
Deceptive
Deceptive adjective - Tending or having power to deceive.
Usage example: in his deceptive answer about the vehicle's history, the salesman said that the used car had never been hit by another car
Ambiguous is a synonym for deceptive in misleading topic. You can use "Ambiguous" instead an adjective "Deceptive", if it concerns topics such as dishonest, equivocal.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- dubious and ambiguous
- dubious and deceptive
- false and ambiguous
- false and deceptive
- fallacious and ambiguous
- fallacious and deceptive
- deceitful and ambiguous
- deceitful and deceptive
- devious and ambiguous
- devious and deceptive
- indirect and ambiguous
- indirect and deceptive
- evasive and ambiguous
- evasive and deceptive
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