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Polished vs Deceptive - What's the difference?

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Polished is a related term of deceptive.


As adjectives the difference between polished and deceptive

is that polished is made smooth or shiny by polishing while deceptive is .

As a verb polished

is (polish).

polished

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,
  • Refined, elegant.
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  • She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished , pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

    Derived terms

    * impolished * perpolished * polishedly * polishedness * unpolished * well-polished

    Verb

    (head)
  • (polish)
  • Anagrams

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    deceptive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • misleading, likely or attempting to deceive
  • deceptive advertising
    deceptive practices
  • * Trench
  • language altogether deceptive , and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * deceptive advertising * deceptive cadence * deceptive cognate