misleading word
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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
The term "individuality" is in fact a most misleading word.
From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Sir Francis Galton
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
But that is, I think, a somewhat misleading word.
From Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning by Edward Carpenter
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