Associations to the word «Misleading»

Wiktionary

MISLEADING, adjective. Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression.
MISLEADING, verb. Present participle of mislead
MISLEADING, noun. A deception that misleads.

Dictionary definition

MISLEADING, adjective. 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".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King