misleading
/mɪsˈliːdɪŋ
/adjective
Giving the wrong idea or impression: your article contains a number of misleading statements...
- The law lets any citizen sue over allegedly false or misleading statements by a business.
- It is an offence to make a false or misleading statement about a property.
- Well, it may arise independently but we are now talking about what you said was false and misleading statement.
Synonyms
deceptive, confusing, deceiving, equivocal, ambiguous, fallacious, specious, spurious, false, mock, pseudo, illusory, delusive, evasive;
casuistic, sophistical
Derivatives
misleadingness
- But in spite of the misleadingness of such expectations, they nevertheless exist.
- But how is misleadingness to be measured?
- However, Consumers Union believes that USDA's proposal would add to, rather than reduce, the misleadingness of several labels.