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
Fortunately the difficulty can be solved by following the late 14th-century custom in distinguishing between “lozenges” and “voided lozenges” and by abandoning altogether this misleading word Mascle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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
Monsieur Crémieux, being probably anxious to see the misleading word removed as soon as possible, came at once to the Palace, without informing Sir Moses of what had occurred.
From Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883 by Louis Loewe
