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
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 Jekyll, Gertrude
But that is, I think, a somewhat misleading word.
From Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning by Carpenter, Edward
