English
Etymology
mislead + -ing
Adjective
misleading (comparative more misleading, superlative most misleading)
- Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression.
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Translations
tending to mislead
- Arabic: مُضَلِّل (muḍallil)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: зма́нлівы (zmánlivy)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 易誤解的／易误解的, 易误解的 (yì wùjiě de), 誤導的／误导的 (zh), 误导的 (zh) (wùdǎo de), 虛幻的／虚幻的 (zh), 虚幻的 (zh) (xūhuàn de)
- Czech: zavádějící
- Dutch: misleidend (nl)
- Esperanto: miskonkludiga, misgvida
- Finnish: harhaanjohtava (fi), erehdyttävä (fi), petollinen (fi), harhauttava
- French: trompeur (fr)
- German: irreführend (de), missverständlich (de), verwirrend (de), verwirrend (de)
- Greek: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
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- Hungarian: félrevezető (hu), megtévesztő (hu)
- Italian: fuorviante (it)
- Japanese: 紛らわしい (まぎらわしい, magirawashii)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: misvisende
- Portuguese: enganoso (pt) m, ilusório (pt) m
- Russian: обма́нчивый (ru) (obmánčivyj), дезориенти́рующий (ru) (dezorijentírujuščij), (false) ло́жный (ru) (lóžnyj), вводя́щий в заблужде́ние (vvodjáščij v zabluždénije)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Roman: prijetvoran (sh), obmanjivački, dezorijentirajući
- Spanish: engañoso (es), ilusorio
- Swedish: missvisande (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: обма́нливий (obmánlyvyj)
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Verb
misleading
- present participle of mislead
Noun
misleading (plural misleadings)
- A deception that misleads.
- 2012, Jennifer Mather Saul, Lying, Misleading, and What is Said (page 70)
- According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.
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