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mis-leading
adjective as in lying
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Strong matches
adjective as in meretricious
adjective as in misleading
adjective as in perfidious
adjective as in puzzling
adjective as in sham
adjective as in tortuous
Strongest matches
adjective as in treacherous
Strongest matches
adjective as in treacherous
adjective as in tricky
adjective as in trumped-up
adjective as in two-faced
adjective as in unfounded
adjective as in unreal
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in untrue
Strongest matches
adjective as in untruthful
adjective as in vain
Weak matches
- abortive
- barren
- bootless
- delusive
- delusory
- empty
- going nowhere
- hollow
- idle
- in vicious circle
- inefficacious
- insignificant
- misleading
- no-win
- not a prayer
- nugatory
- on a treadmill
- otiose
- paltry
- pointless
- profitless
- puny
- senseless
- shuck
- slight
- sterile
- time-wasting
- trifling
- unavailing
- unimportant
- unnotable
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- valueless
- void
- worthless
adjective as in illusory
Strongest matches
adjective as in illusive
adjective as in delusory
adjective as in hallucinatory
adjective as in invented
adjective as in perjured
Strong matches
adjective as in perjurious
Weak matches
- committing perjury
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- equivocating
- false
- falsifying
- fibbing
- forsworn
- guileful
- inventing
- mendacious
- misleading
- misrepresenting
- misstating
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- shifty
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- unreliable
- untruthful
- wrong
adjective as in phantasmagoric
adjective as in phantasmal
adjective as in phantasmic
adjective as in sophistic
adjective as in suppositious
Weak matches
adjective as in supposititious
Weak matches
adjective as in truthless
Weak matches
- counterfactual
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- deviant
- disloyal
- dissembling
- distorted
- erroneous
- faithless
- fallacious
- false
- fictitious
- forsworn
- hollow
- imprecise
- inaccurate
- inconstant
- incorrect
- inexact
- lying
- meretricious
- misleading
- mistaken
- off
- out of line
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- recreant
- sham
- specious
- spurious
- traitorous
- treacherous
- two-faced
- unfaithful
- unloyal
- unsound
- untrue
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- wide
- wrong
adjective as in counterfeit
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in deceitful
Strongest matches
adjective as in deceptive
Strongest matches
adjective as in delusive
adjective as in devious
adjective as in dishonest
Strongest matches
adjective as in elusive
adjective as in equivocal
adjective as in evasive
adjective as in fallacious
adjective as in false
Strongest matches
adjective as in false
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- apostate
- base
- beguiling
- canting
- corrupt
- crooked
- deceiving
- deluding
- delusive
- devious
- dishonorable
- disloyal
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- falsehearted
- forsworn
- foul
- lying
- malevolent
- mean
- mythomaniac
- perfidious
- perjured
- rascally
- recreant
- renegade
- scoundrelly
- traitorous
- treacherous
- treasonable
- two-faced
- underhanded
- unfaithful
- unscrupulous
- untrustworthy
- venal
- villainous
- wicked
adjective as in fantastic
Strongest matches
adjective as in fictitious
Strongest matches
adjective as in illusory/illusive
verb as in lie
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in misinform
verb as in mislead
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in mock
verb as in outwit/outsmart
Weak matches
- baffle
- bamboozle
- beat
- bewilder
- cap
- cheat
- circumvent
- con
- confuse
- deceive
- defeat
- defraud
- dupe
- end-run
- fake out
- finagle
- fox
- gull
- have
- hoax
- hoodwink
- lead astray
- make a fool of
- make a monkey of
- mislead
- outdo
- outfox
- outgeneral
- outguess
- outjockey
- outmaneuver
- outthink
- overreach
- pull a fast one on
- put one over on
- run circles around
- swindle
- take in
- top
- trick
- worst
verb as in perjure
verb as in play dirty
verb as in pretend
Strong matches
verb as in seduce
verb as in sell/sell out
verb as in sham
verb as in shortchange
verb as in take in
verb as in beguile
verb as in trick
verb as in two-time
verb as in belie
verb as in betray
Weak matches
- be unfaithful
- bite the hand that feeds you
- blow the whistle
- break faith
- break promise
- break trust
- break with
- commit treason
- deliver up
- double-cross
- go back on
- inform against
- inform on
- let down
- play false
- play Judas
- sell down the river
- sell out
- stab in the back
- take in
- turn in
- turn informer
- turn state's evidence
- walk out on
verb as in bluff
verb as in outwit
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in cajole
Strong matches
verb as in cheat
Strong matches
verb as in fob off
verb as in outsmart
verb as in outthink
verb as in con
verb as in confuse
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in decoy
verb as in delude
verb as in disappoint
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in distract
Strong matches
verb as in double-cross
verb as in dupe
verb as in ensnare
verb as in garble
verb as in hoodwink
adjective as in lying
Strongest match
Strong matches
adjective as in meretricious
adjective as in misleading
adjective as in perfidious
adjective as in puzzling
adjective as in sham
adjective as in tortuous
Strongest matches
adjective as in treacherous
Strongest matches
adjective as in treacherous
adjective as in tricky
adjective as in trumped-up
adjective as in two-faced
adjective as in unfounded
adjective as in unreal
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in untrue
Strongest matches
adjective as in untruthful
adjective as in vain
Weak matches
- abortive
- barren
- bootless
- delusive
- delusory
- empty
- going nowhere
- hollow
- idle
- in vicious circle
- inefficacious
- insignificant
- misleading
- no-win
- not a prayer
- nugatory
- on a treadmill
- otiose
- paltry
- pointless
- profitless
- puny
- senseless
- shuck
- slight
- sterile
- time-wasting
- trifling
- unavailing
- unimportant
- unnotable
- unproductive
- unprofitable
- valueless
- void
- worthless
adjective as in illusory
Strongest matches
adjective as in illusive
adjective as in delusory
adjective as in hallucinatory
adjective as in invented
adjective as in perjured
Strong matches
adjective as in perjurious
Weak matches
- committing perjury
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- equivocating
- false
- falsifying
- fibbing
- forsworn
- guileful
- inventing
- mendacious
- misleading
- misrepresenting
- misstating
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- shifty
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- unreliable
- untruthful
- wrong
adjective as in phantasmagoric
adjective as in phantasmal
adjective as in phantasmic
adjective as in sophistic
adjective as in suppositious
Weak matches
adjective as in supposititious
Weak matches
adjective as in truthless
Weak matches
- counterfactual
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- deviant
- disloyal
- dissembling
- distorted
- erroneous
- faithless
- fallacious
- false
- fictitious
- forsworn
- hollow
- imprecise
- inaccurate
- inconstant
- incorrect
- inexact
- lying
- meretricious
- misleading
- mistaken
- off
- out of line
- perfidious
- perjured
- prevaricating
- recreant
- sham
- specious
- spurious
- traitorous
- treacherous
- two-faced
- unfaithful
- unloyal
- unsound
- untrue
- untrustworthy
- untruthful
- wide
- wrong
adjective as in counterfeit
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in deceitful
Strongest matches
adjective as in deceptive
Strongest matches
adjective as in delusive
adjective as in devious
adjective as in dishonest
Strongest matches
adjective as in elusive
adjective as in equivocal
adjective as in evasive
adjective as in fallacious
adjective as in false
Strongest matches
adjective as in false
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- apostate
- base
- beguiling
- canting
- corrupt
- crooked
- deceiving
- deluding
- delusive
- devious
- dishonorable
- disloyal
- double-dealing
- duplicitous
- faithless
- falsehearted
- forsworn
- foul
- lying
- malevolent
- mean
- mythomaniac
- perfidious
- perjured
- rascally
- recreant
- renegade
- scoundrelly
- traitorous
- treacherous
- treasonable
- two-faced
- underhanded
- unfaithful
- unscrupulous
- untrustworthy
- venal
- villainous
- wicked
adjective as in fantastic
Strongest matches
adjective as in fictitious
Strongest matches
adjective as in illusory/illusive
verb as in lie
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in misinform
verb as in mislead
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in mock
verb as in outwit/outsmart
Weak matches
- baffle
- bamboozle
- beat
- bewilder
- cap
- cheat
- circumvent
- con
- confuse
- deceive
- defeat
- defraud
- dupe
- end-run
- fake out
- finagle
- fox
- gull
- have
- hoax
- hoodwink
- lead astray
- make a fool of
- make a monkey of
- mislead
- outdo
- outfox
- outgeneral
- outguess
- outjockey
- outmaneuver
- outthink
- overreach
- pull a fast one on
- put one over on
- run circles around
- swindle
- take in
- top
- trick
- worst
verb as in perjure
verb as in play dirty
verb as in pretend
Strong matches
verb as in seduce
verb as in sell/sell out
verb as in sham
verb as in shortchange
verb as in take in
verb as in beguile
verb as in trick
verb as in two-time
verb as in belie
verb as in betray
Weak matches
- be unfaithful
- bite the hand that feeds you
- blow the whistle
- break faith
- break promise
- break trust
- break with
- commit treason
- deliver up
- double-cross
- go back on
- inform against
- inform on
- let down
- play false
- play Judas
- sell down the river
- sell out
- stab in the back
- take in
- turn in
- turn informer
- turn state's evidence
- walk out on
verb as in bluff
verb as in outwit
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in cajole
Strong matches
verb as in cheat
Strong matches
verb as in fob off
verb as in outsmart
verb as in outthink
verb as in con
verb as in confuse
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in decoy
verb as in delude
verb as in disappoint
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in distract
Strong matches
verb as in double-cross
verb as in dupe
verb as in ensnare
verb as in garble
verb as in hoodwink
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On this page you'll find 3161 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mis-leading, such as: misleading, dissembling, dissimulating, double-crossing, double-dealing, and equivocating.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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