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Webster 1913 Edition

Misleading

Mis-lead′ing

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Adj.

Leading astray; delusive.

Webster 1828 Edition

Misleading

MISLE'ADING

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ppr.

Leading into error; causing to err; deceiving.

Definition 2024

misleading

misleading

English

Adjective

misleading ‎(comparative more misleading, superlative most misleading)

Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression.

Derived terms

Translations

tending to mislead

Chinese:
Mandarin: 易誤解的, 易误解的 ‎(yìwùjiě de), 誤導的 (zh), 误导的 (zh) ‎(wùdǎo de)
Czech: zavádějící
Dutch: misleidend (nl)
Esperanto: miskonkludiga, misgvida
Finnish: harhaanjohtava (fi), erehdyttävä (fi), petollinen (fi), harhauttava
French: trompeur (fr)
German: irreführend (de)
Hungarian: félrevezető (hu), megtévesztő (hu)
Italian: fuorviante (it)

Japanese: 紛らわしい ‎(まぎらわしい, magirawashii)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: misvisende
Portuguese: enganoso (pt) m, ilusório (pt) m
Russian: обма́нчивый (ru) ‎(obmánčivyj), дезориенти́рующий (ru) ‎(dezorijentírujuščij), (false) ло́жный (ru) ‎(lóžnyj), вводя́щий в заблужде́ние ‎(vvodjáščij v zabluždénije)
Serbo-Croatian: prijetvoran (sh), obmanjivački, dezorijentirajući
Spanish: engañoso (es), ilusorio
Swedish: missvisande (sv)

Verb

misleading

present participle of mislead

Noun

misleading ‎(plural misleadings)

A deception that misleads.
- 2012, Jennifer Mather Saul, Lying, Misleading, and What is Said (page 70)
  According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.

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