Thesaurus / misleading
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With that background, let’s quickly spin through the misleading video, with sections in the ad highlighted in bold.
TRUMP’S MOST POPULAR YOUTUBE AD IS A STEW OF MANIPULATED VIDEOGLENN KESSLER, MEG KELLYSEPTEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POSTHindenburg Research, a short seller whose report sent Nikola shares tumbling last week, made false and misleading statements that were designed to manipulate the market, Nikola said Monday.
NIKOLA RELEASES FULLER DENIAL OF SHORT SELLER HINDENBURG’S ALLEGATIONSRADMARYASEPTEMBER 14, 2020FORTUNEThe first night of the RNC featured more false and misleading claims than all four nights of the DNC put together, according to a CNN fact-check.
THE RNC WEAPONIZED EXHAUSTIONZACK BEAUCHAMPAUGUST 28, 2020VOXAll four of those claims are either misleading or incorrect.
BARRIOS MAKES DUBIOUS CLAIMS ON INVESTIGATIONS INTO HIS SPENDINGJESSE MARXAUGUST 25, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOAdding to the confusion, some purifiers may be advertised as having “HEPA type” filters, which could be misleading, since these may not be as effective as a true HEPA filters.
CAN AN AIR PURIFIER HELP PROTECT YOU FROM COVID-19?DZANEMORRISAUGUST 22, 2020FORTUNEUnfortunately, many businesses fail to define metrics which leads to misleading results and inability to assess the effectiveness of their VSM efforts.
DEFINING VALUE STREAM MANAGEMENT FOR SEO BUSINESS OWNERSCONNIE BENTONAUGUST 11, 2020SEARCH ENGINE WATCHAny comparison based on expenditure per gun must therefore be misleading.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONIn the morning, two Scots trumpeters, who had been left to blow misleading blasts, were brought into camp.
KING ROBERT THE BRUCEA. F. MURISONThis ignorance was far more confusing and even misleading than it had been when its proportions were less defined.
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRDIndiscriminately employed, it is worse than useless—it can be confusing or actually misleading.
TABOO AND GENETICSMELVIN MOSES KNIGHT, IVA LOWTHER PETERS, AND PHYLLIS MARY BLANCHARDWORDS RELATED TO MISLEADING
- Barmecidal
- apparent
- blue-sky
- chimerical
- deceitful
- delusive
- delusory
- fallacious
- false
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fictional
- fictitious
- fictive
- float
- hallucinatory
- ideal
- illusive
- imaginary
- misleading
- mistaken
- ostensible
- pipe dream
- seeming
- semblant
- sham
- suppositious
- supposititious
- unreal
- untrue
- visionary
- whimsical
- apocryphal
- artificial
- assumed
- bogus
- chimerical
- concocted
- cooked-up
- counterfeit
- created
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- dishonest
- ersatz
- fabricated
- factitious
- fake
- faked
- false
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fantastical
- fashioned
- feigned
- fictional
- fictive
- figmental
- hyped-up
- illusory
- imaginary
- imagined
- improvised
- made
- made-up
- make believe
- misleading
- mock
- mythical
- phony
- queer
- romantic
- sham
- simulated
- spurious
- suppositious
- supposititious
- synthetic
- trumped-up
- unreal
- committing perjury
- deceitful
- deceptive
- delusive
- delusory
- dissembling
- dissimulating
- double-crossing
- double-dealing
- equivocating
- false
- falsifying
- fibbing
- guileful
- inventing
- mendacious
- misleading
- misrepresenting
- misstating
- perfidious
- prevaricating
- shifty
- treacherous
- tricky
- two-faced
- two-timing
- unreliable
- untruthful
- wrong
- ambiguous
- baffling
- cagey
- deceitful
- deceptive
- difficult to catch
- elusory
- equivocal
- evanescent
- fallacious
- fleeting
- fraudulent
- fugacious
- fugitive
- greasy
- illusory
- imponderable
- incomprehensible
- indefinable
- insubstantial
- intangible
- misleading
- occult
- phantom
- puzzling
- shifty
- shy
- slippery
- stonewalling
- subtle
- transient
- transitory
- tricky
- unspecific
- volatile
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