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I both agree that it's pointless to argue about definitions and think you've presented a definition that fails to capture a lot of common usage of the word. I don't think it matters what the dictionary says when we are talking about how a word is used. Like we use "deceptive" to describe inanimate objects pretty frequently. I responded to someone who thought describing the outputs of a machine learning model as deceiving people implied it had agency, which is nonsense


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