misleading English

Meaning misleading meaning

What does misleading mean?

Definitions in simple English

misleading Adjective

— If someone or something is misleading, it is leading you to a lie. It is false and deceptive. Many advertisements for weight loss products are misleading because they promise results without diet or exercise. The wolf's disguise and inviting voice were misleading tricks to trap Little Red Riding Hood.

misleading

— adjective (= deceptive, shoddy) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm deliberately deceptive packaging a misleading similarity statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading shoddy business practices

Synonyms misleading synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as misleading?

misleading English » English

deceptive

fallacious

delusive

confusing

shoddy

sham

equivocal

dissembling

deceiving

deceitful

untrue

unstable

unreasonable

tricky

sophistic

seductive

seduction

perplexing

misunderstanding

misteaching

misinterpretation

lying

falsity

falsehood

false

evasive

erroneous

distortion

deluding

deception

counterfeit

corrupting

cheating

catchy

ambiguous

Examples misleading examples

How do I use misleading in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This translation is incorrect and misleading.

You told me you had a nice ass. Was that a misleading statement then?

It's misleading.

The latest exam was difficult and its questions misleading.

First impressions can often be misleading.

Popular lectures are the easiest to listen to, but they are necessarily both superficial and misleading, since they have to be graded to the comprehension of an ignorant audience.

There are many misleading news articles nowadays.

Movie subtitles

The facts were misleading.

However, certain misleading reports were sent to the Force Commander. He doubted the Caine's competence as to being returned to combat.

Your impression is not misleading.

For stirring up evil matters among the people for misleading their minds and denying the wisdom of authority.

Yes, it was Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Brainsample who, after only a brief and misleading appearance in the early part of the film, returned to save the Earth.

The colour change symptoms were misleading the computer.

I'm sorry, however, if you found my words misleading but you see you are to remain here.

This. stylistic approximation of Sophocles is misleading.

No, not misleading. Have you read my paper?

Not entirely false, but misleading, open to misinterpretation.

When I said I was Mr Boddy's butler, it was true but misleading.

Do you mean that you will answer misleading questions?

We move for a change of venue due to misleading exposure in the press.

We decided to check for ourselves, but we got misleading information.

The point is, Zidler, this makes La Goulue seem to be the star here. - which is false and misleading.

However, certain misleading reports were sent to the Force Commander.

I think Mr Simson is misleading me.

Misleading the innocent?

That's it, Doctor. The colour change symptoms were misleading the computer. Because they were caused by the aurora!

So there's nothing against milk, but the propaganda shouldn't be crude and misleading.

It was the misleading Implications of the proposals.

No, not misleading.

To give false info, would be misleading him.

And like most of them, pretty misleading.

Proof again that evidence can be misleading.

This knowledge is by nature incomplete and misleading, as it only comes through changes in my body and thoughts.

Or by misleading the innocent.

You seem to be, more misleading. Thank you.

Monsieur Cyphre and I were in the vicinity of the hospital just outside Poughkeepsie. We decided to check for ourselves but were given misleading information.

That's misleading.

That's just a misleading metaphor.

Don't you see she's misleading you, lying to you, and to me?

And how unsatisfactory to have misleading information.

You said keep your eyes out of focus, which is misleading.

News and current affairs

America's business scandals showed how accounting rules can be bent and abused to provide a misleading picture of what is really happening in a company.

The Bush Administration, not to be left behind, has shown how public accounting rules can be bent so as to provide a misleading picture of what is really happening in a national economy.

This historical analogy, though increasingly popular, is misleading.

Either way, fuzzy statements about hegemonic decline would again prove misleading.

But he fails to see anything gravely wrong about misleading his country and the world concerning Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

It was nevertheless misleading, for the CIA had informed the British that their information was not reliable.

A person who is morally sensitive to the seriousness of starting a war on the basis of misleading information would take appropriate steps.

But the war metaphor also carries inevitable connotations that, when applied to terrorism, are misleading and counterproductive.

The conventional production function of neoclassical economics offers a dangerously misleading lens through which to interpret the processes of frontier innovation.

Such a connection may be highly misleading.

But these ostensibly alarming figures can be misleading.

Warnings about competitive devaluations are misleading.

Of course, there are many different kinds of democratic transitions, and lumping them all together might be misleading.

The dream of improving the world disguised a farce that affected not only a single life, as in Cervantes' story, and affected not only the misleading army of buffoons believed to be missionaries.

While the US has problems, it hardly fits the description of absolute decline in ancient Rome, and the analogy to British decline, however popular, is similarly misleading.

This is misleading.

From the outset, the TPP's supposed openness has been wholly misleading.

Unfortunately, the political debate is distorted by misleading statistics that grossly understate these gains.

It would be similarly misleading to attribute T3's success to China alone.

As a result, he concluded, highly complex models may regularly yield misleading information.

More than 50 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, and misleading expectations, are about to recreate this pattern of underdevelopment in Bolivia.