Misleading

What do we mean by misleading?

Tending to mislead; deceptive. adjective

Tending to lead astray; deceptive: as, a misleading theory.

Leading astray; delusive. adjective

Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression. adjective

Present participle of mislead. verb

Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently adjective

To lead astray, in a false direction.

To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression.

To deceptively trick into something wrong.

To accidentally or intentionally confuse.

Causing someone to believe something that is not true: misleading information/statements Coments must not create a misleading impression. Urban Dictionary

Causing someone to believe something that is not true: misleading information/statements Coments must not create a misleading impression. Urban Dictionary

Causing someone to believe something that is not true: misleading information/statements Coments must not create a misleading impression. Urban Dictionary

To move someone in the wrong direction,also to confuse him. Urban Dictionary

Right-wing euphemism for "lie." A favorite word of the White House and the conservative media. Urban Dictionary

Made up by Tinchy Styder, to rhyme with "mistreated". Urban Dictionary

Lie Urban Dictionary

Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities. Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage. Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects. DHMO is a major component of acid rain. Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns. Contributes to soil erosion. Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals. Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits. Used in: historically, in Hitler's death camps in Nazi Germany, and in prisons in Turkey, Serbia, Croatia, Libya, Iraq and Iran, in World War II prison camps in Japan, and in prisons in China, for various forms of torture, during many recent religious and ethnic wars in the Middle East, by many terrorist organizations including al Quaeda, in community swimming pools to maintain chemical balance, in day care centers, purportedly for sanitary purposes, Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes. Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions. Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks. Often associated with killer cyclones in the U.S. Midwest and elsewhere, and in hurricanes including deadly storms in Florida, New Orleans and other areas of the southeastern U.S. Urban Dictionary

Leading someone or a group to believe something that is false, such as misinformation. Urban Dictionary

See George W. Bush, Dubya. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to misleading:
misleading, misreading, mispleading, mistreading, mishearing, misdealing, mislaying, misfeeding.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word misleading:
deceptive, inaccurate, statements, impression, unfair, asa, consumers, advertising, false, advertisements, incorrect, claims, securities, conduct, facts, testimony, implies, errors, consumer, information, tactics, practices, regarding, propaganda, believing, wrong, allegations, potentially, readers, marketing, customers, argument, statement, evidence, statistics, criticized, fact.

Words that rhyme with misleading:
preceding, reading, proceeding, leading, breeding, pleading, succeeding, bleeding, feeding, seeding, proofreading, impeding, beading, receding, exceeding, ceding, weeding, acceding, speeding, conceding, inbreeding, needing, heeding, kneading, cheerleading, seceding, superseding, interceding, legal proceeding, rereading, reeding, cleading, misreading, sheading, stampeding, reding, deeding, special pleading, judicial proceeding, affirmative pleading, horse breeding, cattle breeding, defective pleading, dog breeding, alternative pleading, bleed ing, breed ing, feed ing, preceeding, proceed ing, weed hung.

Adjectives that are often used to describe misleading:
more, formula.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective misleading:
impression, results, picture, term, statements, information, way, name, conclusions, title, statement, advertising, claims, nature, view, appearance, word, description, reports, guide, indicator, idea, data, character, use, phrase, account, interpretation, questions, associations, terms, interpretations, connotations, advertisements, notion, analogy, implications, concept, expression, effect, influence, translation, impressions, metaphor, answers, label, features, image, statistics, result, signals, conclusion, manner, measure, names, assumptions, question, ideas, suggestions, inferences, indication, appearances, report, figure, assumption, terminology, conception, propaganda, representation, labels, analogies, figures, simplification, oversimplification, suggestion, estimates, accounts, fashion, expressions, cues, practices, comparisons, comparison, message, distinction, emphasis, implication, indicators, answer, aspect, claim, representations, titles.

Words that sound like misleading:
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