deceptive
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Dishonest
artificiality
bad faith
be rotten to the coreidiom
bent
cowboy
dubiously
false
finagle
fishy
fly-by-night
malfeasance
mendacious
mendaciously
misleadingly
perjured
under false pretencesphrase
underhand
unreliability
unreliable
unscrupulous
Related word
misleadingly
misleading | American Dictionary
misleading
adjective
us/mɪsˈli·dɪŋ/
causing someone to believe something that is not true:
misleading information
a misleading story
misleading | Business English
misleading
adjective
uk /mɪsˈliːdɪŋ/us
causing someone to believe something that is not true:
The instructions were confusing and even misleading in some cases.
misleading advertisements/advertising/advertsThe credit company has been criticized by the Office of Fair Trading for printing misleading advertisements.
misleading claims/information/statementsThe money will compensate investors who received misleading information about the financial condition of the company.
The screens at the stock exchange gave the misleading impression that shares were falling.