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

The term "individuality" is in fact a most misleading word.

From Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development by Galton, Francis, Sir

But 'deification' is an unintelligent and misleading word.

From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Murray, Gilbert

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