misleading

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The comments, which circulated widely online, drew sharp responses from historians and legal scholars who rejected the comparison as inaccurate and misleading.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026

The title of David George Haskell’s “How Flowers Made the World” might be a little misleading.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Posters placed along the County Antrim coast telling people not to go into Belfast Lough, due to "raw sewage" have not been placed by a Stormont department and are "misleading", a minister has said.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

The article also included a statement from Steven Ginsberg, executive editor of the Athletic, who expressed full support of Russini and said the photos “are misleading and lack essential context.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

It was his familiarity with atomism which made it possible for Bacon, exceptionally and presciently, to dismiss human sensory organs as inherently defective and often misleading.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton