MISLEADING Synonyms

• involving deception

• marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another

• causing one to believe what is not true or fail to believe what is true

• designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently

• inappropriate to reality or facts

• containing or based on a fallacy

• involving deception

• based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information

• not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality

• in a disloyal and faithless manner

• arising from error

• erroneous and usually accidental

• deliberately deceptive

• inappropriate to reality or facts

• not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article

• designed to deceive

• inaccurate in pitch

• adopted in order to deceive

• (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful

• formed or conceived by the imagination

• adopted in order to deceive

• involving deception

• plausible but false

• based on pretense; deceptively pleasing

• not according with the facts

• not true to an obligation or trust

• not accurately fitted; not level

• (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful

• be false to; be dishonest with

• lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions

• give bad advice to

• give false or misleading information to

• influence by slyness

• attract; cause to be enamored

• weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

• weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

• someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• a deception for profit to yourself

• deprive somebody of something by deceit

• defeat someone through trickery or deceit

• engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud

• be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

• causing confusion or disorientation

• lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity

• be false to; be dishonest with

• cause someone to believe an untruth

• be false to; be dishonest with

• corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

• lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions

• put a wrong address on

• so similar as to be easily identified for another thing