Associations to the word «Misleading»

Wiktionary

MISLEADING, adjective. Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression.
MISLEADING, verb. Present participle of mislead
MISLEADING, noun. A deception that misleads.

Dictionary definition

MISLEADING, adjective. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats