What is "deceptively"

Usage examples of "deceptively".

Winding alleys and narrow streets separated the ramshackle hovels from dingy courts bearing deceptively exotic names like Caribee Islands and the Bermudas.

With his deceptively delicate appearance Cyn was not accustomed to women being so wary of him.

I had first seen the place on a moist afternoon when distances are deceptively diminished.

He began a slow, almost folklike melody, deceptively simple but very evocative.

A deceptively thin helmetlike device cupped his head, holding it immobile.

On the fifth day, having reached the limits of forbearance, he had turned the herd and tried to break back through their line, and they had been there to head him off, the tiny upright sticklike figures, so deceptively frail and yet so deadly, springing up from the yeHow grass, barring his escape to the south, flapping blankets and beating on empty paraffin tins, until his courage failed and the old bull turned back, and led his herds once more down the rugged escarpment towards the great river.

Long sleeves fell in graceful pleats, calling attention to her hands, and the floor-length skirt, deceptively slim, was slashed to permit all of her accustomed stride.

Deceptively casual, even then it did not reveal itself entirely, and afterward it seemed to Celia as if fate had tiptoed in, at first unheeded and wearing a prosaic scabbard from which, later, emerged a fiery sword.

She would have her nose parked on the rim of Kudra's bottle, saying something such as, "You know, cher, I believe this to be a deceptively simple boof.

Cataracts of water smashed over rocks, burying the lower quarter of her stairway in a deceptively creamy froth.

That recorded, the testing moved on to deceptively complete hand-eye coordinations that again left her drenched with sweat.

Deceptively beautiful to watch when well performed it is brutally physical work: a tremendous aerobic exercise.

Each wooden surface bore the fine marks of qheuen tooth-work, all the way down to angle brackets sculpted in lacy, deceptively strong filigrees.

He must have practiced, Jack realized a moment later, because the head was removed with a single stroke as deceptively powerful as a ballet master's.

Underbrush was scantier, and trees larger, than near Sybil Brown's cottage, and the mossy groundcover, which had been cheerfully sprinkled with dogwood and saxifrage near the wizard's castle, began more and more to sprout mugwort, lousewort, fly-specked orchia, skunk cabbage, wax flowers and the deceptively demure pink bell-like blossoms of poisonous bog rosemary.