misleading word
Example Sentences
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Maybe “civility” is a misleading word for what I’m trying to describe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2022
Of course, congress is a bit of a misleading word, too.
From Time ● Mar. 5, 2013
From that time I drew, in my own mind, a clear distinction between the doctrine of circumstances and Fatalism; discarding altogether the misleading word Necessity.
From Autobiography by John Stuart Mill
The term "individuality" is in fact a most misleading word.
From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Sir Francis Galton
Amber is a misleading word, for who is to know when it means the transparent amber, whose colour approaches that of resin, or the pale, almost opaque, dull-yellow kind.
From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Gertrude Jekyll
