- present participle of mislead.
misleading
Example Sentences
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Jupp's predecessor Turness left the BBC after an internal memo leaked to the Telegraph highlighted that an episode of Panorama broadcast a year earlier had edited a speech by President Trump in a misleading way.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
But that is a “very misleading statistic,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
We all know that social-media personas can be misleading.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
More than three-quarters of Americans — including 79% of Democrats, 76% of Republicans and 75% of independents — said they were “concerned that misleading audio or video ‘deepfakes’ created using AI will impact” the midterms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
This was done at the insistence of many child psychologists, who felt that to mix fantasy and reality would be misleading to children.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
