misleadingly
2
5.3
- adverb
- /ˌmɪsˈliːdɪŋli/
:
engañosamente
- Such a portrayal of students, however, invests them with a misleadingly inflated sense of empowerment.
- misleadingly called
Examples
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AE: Analytics is sometimes characterized misleadingly as "data-driven decision making."
Blog text (7) -
Establishing the initiative's true costs, beyond the government's misleadingly low figures, was a Herculean task.
Academic text (2002) -
Governments created and maintain their own sector of the economy, the government sector, misleadingly calling it the "public sector."
Blog text (10) -
Of course empirical evidence is overwhelming, but it's not what is misleadingly called empirical evidence.
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Another misleadingly simple explanation is that resource policies become faulty because conditions change.
Academic text (2001) -
The latest challenge to quality science education in Louisiana came in the form of SB 733, the misleadingly named "Louisiana Science Education Act."
Academic text (2008) -
The State Department's terrorism report presents time-series analysis, but by focusing on the total number of attacks, it misleadingly combines verifiable data on significant events with nonverifiable data on insignificant ones.
Academic text (2004) -
The advertisement was misleadingly worded, making consumers think the product was cheaper than it actually was.
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He presented his findings misleadingly, which caused confusion among his colleagues about the results.
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The news article was misleadingly titled, leading many readers to believe the report was about a different topic.
Synonyms
83
3.5
In a way that is not true or correct
16
5.7
In a way that makes something seem different from what it really is
12
6.7
In a mistaken way
4
3.5
In a way that tries to trick or cheat other people
2
8.4
In a dishonest way, by pretending not to know something
1
6.3
In a way that tries to trick someone
1
7.7
In a way that seems true but is not
1
5.9
In a way that is not true to make other people believe something false
1
8.4
In a wrong way because of a false belief that leads to wrong conclusions
In a way that seems true but is actually false
In a way that makes people believe something that is not true
In a way that unfairly supports one side
To use clever but unfair reasons to avoid a clear answer
Antonyms
How Misleading
Surface Forms
Morphology
misleadingly = misleading (transparent) = mis + lead + ing + ly
Adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'misleading' produces the adverb with an expected meaning.
Etymology
Misleadingly breaks into mis- 'wrong' and lead 'to guide', the same lead you see in leader, and the -ly part makes it tell how something is done. So, to act misleadingly is like leading someone down the wrong path or giving a false idea.