misleading

mis·lead·ing

adjective

Tending to mislead; deceptive.

Related Forms:

mis·lead′ing·ly
adverb

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Adjective

(comparative more misleading, superlative most misleading)

Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression.

Verb

Present participle of mislead.

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The title of My Exile in Siberia is misleading; he was never in that country.
The date of the arrival of the Cechs in Bohemia is very uncertain, and the scanty references to the country in classical and Byzantine writers are rather misleading than otherwise.
This appears to be an artificial and misleading notion.
Thanks for being 'a bit misleading.'
Columbus, trusting to Toscanelli's misleading chart, looked upon the countries discovered by him as belonging to eastern Asia, a view still shared about 1507 by his brother Bartolomeo.

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