giving the wrong idea or impression and making you believe something that is not true synonym deceptive misleading information/advertisements It would be seriously misleading to suggest that television has no effect on children.
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adverb These bats are sometimes misleadingly referred to as “flying foxes.”See misleading in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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