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[ adjective ] tending to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
Synonyms Examples "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm" "deliberately deceptive packaging" "a misleading similarity" "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading" Used in print (J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors in spirit , the monastic communities , is with an appropriate shift of adjectives , misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato 's Republic : (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)Two gas_lamps were no more than a misleading glow . Related terms |
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