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

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

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 Mill, John Stuart

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