"misleading" in the verb sense
1. mislead, misdirect, misguide, lead astray
lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions
"The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver"
2. misinform, mislead
give false or misleading information to
"misleading" in the adjective sense
1. deceptive, misleading
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"
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