misleading
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
misleading
adj 1: 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" [syn:
{deceptive}, {misleading}, {shoddy}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mislead \Mis*lead"\ (m[i^]s*l[=e]d"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Misled} (m[i^]s*l[e^]d"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Misleading}.]
[AS. misl[=ae]dan. See {Mis-}, and {Lead} to conduct.]
To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide
into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
[1913 Webster]
Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you.
--Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
To give due light
To the mislead and lonely traveler. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: To delude; deceive. See {Deceive}.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "misleading":
Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, apparent, apparitional, autistic,
beguiling, bewildering, bum steer, catchy, chimeric,
college of Laputa, conflict, confounding, corruption, deceitful,
deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusional, delusionary, delusive,
delusory, dereistic, disaccord, discord, distracting, dreamlike,
dreamy, dubious, erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic, fishy,
hallucinatory, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory,
imaginary, inaccurate, jangle, jar, misdirecting, misdirection,
miseducative, misguidance, misguiding, misinformation,
misinforming, misinstruction, misinstructive, misknowledge,
mismatch, misteaching, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism,
obscuration, ostensible, perplexing, perversion, phantasmagoric,
phantasmal, phantom, puzzling, questionable, seeming,
self-deceptive, self-deluding, sophistical, sophistry, specious,
spectral, supposititious, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unactual,
unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, wrong
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