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[syn: deceptive, misleading, shoddy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Misleading \Mis*lead"ing\, a.
Leading astray; delusive.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mislead \Mis*lead"\ (m[i^]s*l[=e]d"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Misled (m[i^]s*l[e^]d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Misleading.]
[AS. misl[=ae]dan. See Mis-, and Lead to conduct.]
To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide
into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
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Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you.
--Bacon.
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To give due light
To the mislead and lonely traveler. --Milton.
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Syn: To delude; deceive. See Deceive.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
misleading
adj 1: 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" [syn:
deceptive, misleading, shoddy]