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misleading
adjective
1 misleading
Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently:
— A misleading similarity.
— Statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading.
synonym: deceptive.
noun
Roget 495:
error,
fallacy;
misconception,
misapprehension,
misstanding†,
misunderstanding;
inexactness
etc.
adj.;
laxity;
misconstruction
etc.
(misinterpretation)
523;
miscomputation
etc.
(misjudgment)
481;
non sequitur
etc.
477;
mis-statement,
mis-report;
mumpsimus†.
mistake;
miss,
fault,
blunder,
quiproquo,
cross purposes,
oversight,
misprint,
erratum,
corrigendum,
slip,
blot,
flaw,
loose thread;
trip,
stumble
etc.
(failure)
732;
botchery
etc.
(want of skill)
699†;
slip of the tongue,
slip of the lip,
Freudian slip;
slip of the pen;
lapsus linguae [Lat.],
clerical error;
bull
etc.
(absurdity)
497;
haplography†.
illusion,
delusion;
snare;
false impression,
false idea;
bubble;
self-decit,
self-deception;
mists of error.
heresy
etc.
(heterodoxy)
984;
hallucination
etc.
(insanity)
503;
false light
etc.
(fallacy of vision)
443;
dream
etc.
(fancy)
515;
fable
etc.
(untruth)
546;
bias
etc.
(misjudgment)
481;
misleading
etc.
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Roget 538:
misteaching†,
misinformaton,
misintelligence†,
misguidance,
misdirection,
mispersuasion†,
misinstruction†,
misleading
etc.
v.;
perversion,
false teaching;
sophistry
etc.
477;
college of Laputa;
the blind leading the blind.
[misteaching by government agents]
propaganda,
disinformation,
agitprop;
indoctrination.
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