misleading
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ
AdjectiveEdit
misleading (comparative more misleading, superlative most misleading)
- Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.
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tending to mislead
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VerbEdit
misleading
NounEdit
misleading (plural misleadings)
- A deception that misleads.
- 2012, Jennifer Mather Saul, Lying, Misleading, and What is Said (page 70)
- According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.
- 2012, Jennifer Mather Saul, Lying, Misleading, and What is Said (page 70)