Meaning of MISLEADING
Pronunciation: | | mis'leedeeng
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| Definition: | | [adj] tending 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" |
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| Synonyms: | | deceptive, dishonest, dishonorable |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Mis*lead"ing\, a.
Leading astray; delusive.
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Thesaurus Terms |
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| Related Terms: | | airy, apparent, apparitional, autistic, Barmecidal, Barmecide, 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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