Definitions for misleading
mɪsˈli dɪŋmis·lead·ing

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. deceptive, misleading, shoddy(adj)

   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"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. misleading(Adjective)

   Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Misleading

   of Mislead

2. Misleading(adj)

   leading astray; delusive

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'misleading' in Adjectives Frequency: #876

Anagrams for misleading »

1. misdealing

2. misaligned

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of misleading in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of misleading in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of misleading in a Sentence

1. Xu Hong:

   Some people, who do not know the truth, have questioned China's position of not accepting or participating in the arbitration, some others, who harbor ulterior motives, have made one-sided and misleading readings of the rules of international law, and, on that basis, made accusations or insinuations that China does not abide by law and perversely brand China a 'challenger' to international rules.

2. Deb Fischer:

   Misleading prompts to just click the 'OK' button can often transfer your contacts, messages, browsing activity, photos, or location information without you even realizing it.

3. J. William Fulbright:

   To me, the irony of this involvement with size, as I observed earlier, is the unwillingness or inability of so many Americans to identify themselves with something as vast as the United States. Bigger cars, bigger parking lots, bigger corporate structures, bigger farms, bigger drug stores, bigger supermarkets, bigger motion-picture screens. The tangible and the functional expand, while the intangible and the beautiful shrink. Left to wither is the national purpose, national educational needs, literature and theater, and our critical faculties. The national dialogue is gradually being lost in a froth of misleading self-congratulation and cliche. National needs and interests are slowly being submerged by the national preoccupation with the irrelevant.

4. Herbert Spencer:

   How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

5. Moshe Maimon:

   Yet another jury has rejected J&J's misleading claims that its talc was free of asbestos, the internal J&J documents that the jury saw, once more laid bare the shocking truth of decades of cover- up, deception and concealment by J&J.

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