Definitions for misleading
mɪsˈli dɪŋmis·lead·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. deceptive, misleading, shoddyadjective

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. misleadingadjective

   Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression.

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1. misleading

   Deception or falsehood is an act or statement that misleads, hides the truth, or promotes a belief, concept, or idea that is not true. It is often done for personal gain or advantage. Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda and sleight of hand as well as distraction, camouflage or concealment. There is also self-deception, as in bad faith. It can also be called, with varying subjective implications, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, ruse, or subterfuge. Deception is a major relational transgression that often leads to feelings of betrayal and distrust between relational partners. Deception violates relational rules and is considered to be a negative violation of expectations. Most people expect friends, relational partners, and even strangers to be truthful most of the time. If people expected most conversations to be untruthful, talking and communicating with others would require distraction and misdirection to acquire reliable information. A significant amount of deception occurs between some romantic and relational partners.Deceit and dishonesty can also form grounds for civil litigation in tort, or contract law (where it is known as misrepresentation or fraudulent misrepresentation if deliberate), or give rise to criminal prosecution for fraud. It also forms a vital part of psychological warfare in denial and deception.

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1. misleading

   Misleading refers to providing false, inaccurate, or deceptive information or guidance that may cause misunderstanding or incorrect conclusions. It involves giving someone the wrong idea or impression, often with the intention of deceiving them or leading them astray from the truth.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Misleading

   of Mislead

2. Misleadingadjective

   leading astray; delusive

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

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

Anagrams for misleading »

1. misaligned

2. misdealing

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Numerology

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. John Demers:

   We have to have an evidentiary basis to say, when you act, would-be-reporter, you're actually acting at the direction of your government and you don't have an independent journalistic ethos that we think of when we look at a reporter, in fact, not labeling you as a foreign agent is misleading because you're presenting yourself to the American people as somebody who's independent and thinking your own thoughts but you're not, you're getting your thoughts from a foreign government.

2. Lakshheish M Patel:

   One of the many ways how YOUTUBERS are fooling traders is that they say that see sensex has fallen only 19% and is a correction not crash but they don't add that 90% of shares have touched 75-95% fall. The fact is 99.9 % of youtubers are paid agents like mainstream news channels for fooling and misleading investors and spreading rumors

3. Adam Schiff:

   Regrettably, it has been necessary for Democrats to draft our own memorandum, setting out the relevant facts and exposing the misleading character of the Republicans ’ document so that members of the House are not left with an erroneous impression of the dedicated professionals at the FBI and DOJ.

4. Lori Lightfoot:

   It wasn't a playground, it was a park. It wasn't seven dead. It wasn't 52 wounded in one incident, which is what this suggests. And it's misleading, it's important when we're talking about people's lives to actually get the facts correct, which one can easily do if you actually cared about getting it right.

5. Lizzie Litzow:

   That is a completely misleading statement about the detailed contracting work FEMA does during times of disasters, in fact, FEMA awarded more than $ 3.9 billion dollars in contracts supporting response and recovery efforts for the 2017 hurricane season, with the agency canceling just three contracts. Those three companies did not meet their contract requirements when they were unable to meet the required delivery dates.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=misleading
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Misleading
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misleading
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misleading