Definitions
designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
Word origin
From mislead + -ing.
Used in a sentence
“The problem does not appear so hopeless when misleading metaphor is discarded.”
“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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01“Deceptive”10 letters
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