deceptive

  • 31deceptive statement — index misrepresentation Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 32deceptive sales practices — The Federal Trade Commission and statutes in most states make deceptive sales practices unlawful. Historically, an act was deceptive if it had any tendency to deceive a nontrivial number of customers. A more recent reformulation of the test… …

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  • 33deceptive sales practices — The Federal Trade Commission and statutes in most states make deceptive sales practices unlawful. Historically, an act was deceptive if it had any tendency to deceive a nontrivial number of customers. A more recent reformulation of the test… …

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  • 34Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act — The Deceptive Practices and Voter Intimidation Prevention Act of 2007 (S. 453) was a bill introduced in the 110th Congress on January 31, 2007, by Sen. Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois and Sen. Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York. The bill was… …

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  • 35deceptive advertising — False and misleading advertising. Advertisement which contains any assertion, representation or statement of fact which is untrue or misleading. Where the public are not cautious or watchful in their buying habits and are likely to be misled, the …

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  • 36deceptive advertising — False and misleading advertising. Advertisement which contains any assertion, representation or statement of fact which is untrue or misleading. Where the public are not cautious or watchful in their buying habits and are likely to be misled, the …

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  • 37deceptive cadence — noun : a cadence in which the full or final close is evaded by the use of an unexpected or foreign chord as the chord of resolution called also false cadence, interrupted cadence, suspended cadence; see cadence illustration * * * Music. a cadence …

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  • 38deceptive — adjective /dɪ.ˈsɛp.tɪv/ misleading, likely or attempting to deceive See Also: deception, deceptively, deceive, deceit …

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  • 39deceptive — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Misleading] Syn. unreliable, ambiguous, illusory; see false 2 , 3 . 2. [Dishonest] Syn. deceitful, tricky, lying; see dishonest 1 , 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. dishonest, misleading, fraudulent, tricky,… …

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  • 40deceptive — de cep·tive || ptɪv adj. misleading, deceitful …

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