misleadingadjective
uk/ˌmɪsˈliː.dɪŋ/us/ˌmɪsˈliː.dɪŋ/B2 causing someone to believe something that is not true:
misleading information/statements
Adverts must not create a misleading impression.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dishonest
- bad faith
- be rotten to the core idiom
- be up to no good idiom
- bent
- cowboy
- down-and-dirty
- dubious
- false
- finagle
- fishy
- low-down
- malfeasance
- mendacious
- perjure
- rich
- underhand
- unreliable
- unscrupulous
- unsporting
- weasel
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misleadingly
adverb uk/ˌmɪsˈliː.dɪŋ.li/us/ˌmɪsˈliː.dɪŋ.li/
We climbed the misleadingly named 'Short Mountain'.