Misleading (Adjective)
Meaning
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".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The company's financial report was criticized for being misleading and understating the true extent of its losses.
- The mispricing was misleading many investors who thought they were getting a fair deal.
- The statistics were presented in a misleading way to support a false conclusion.
- The tourist was given a misleading map which led him astray for hours.
- The infomercials used misleading advertising tactics to convince viewers to buy their products.