misleading

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.

   The problem does not appear so hopeless when misleading metaphor is discarded.

2. 2
   noun

   A deception that misleads.

   According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.

3. 3
   adj

   designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently

4. 4
   verb

   present participle and gerund of mislead

Etymology

From mislead + -ing.