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Example sentences for "misleading"

Lexicographically close words:
misjudgment; mislaid; mislay; mislaying; mislead; misleads; misled; misletoe; mislike; misliked
  1. On station bulletin boards announcing train arrivals and departures, see that false and misleading information is given about trains bound for enemy destinations.

  2. When training new workers, give in complete or misleading instructions.

  3. A subtle and tricky man, he was constantly misleading judges by citing fictitious authorities, and then smiling at their professional ignorance when they had swallowed his audacious fabrications.

  4. To call it misleading would be too high praise; it seldom rises beyond a level of blameless irrelevance.

  5. But such a selection would convey a misleading impression.

  6. Some limited portion of her object is perhaps attained by the statistical data which the administration of King's Hospital Fund demands, but even here there are possibilities of misleading comparison.

  7. It was here, in this matter of humour, that Arnold's writings were specially misleading as to the personality of the man.

  8. Clearly, the form of the Syllogism must itself be misleading if the universal proposition is so: if we think that premises prove the conclusion because they themselves have been established by detailed observation, we are mistaken.

  9. The over-zealous missionary may be influenced by the misleading thought that the bearing of his testimony to those who have not before heard the gospel message, is to convince or condemn, as the hearers accept or reject.

  10. If this resulted in misleading a reader, objection might be raised; but, we feel confident, this exceptional mode of punctuation is justified.

  11. The idea had been almost excluded by Bacon's misleading metaphor of old age, which Fontenelle expressly rejects.

  12. This was the state of public opinion when an anonymous work appeared (in 1853) under the somewhat misleading title of The Plurality of Worlds: An Essay.

  13. The testimony of the early maps is rather misleading than reassuring, so conjectural was their geography.

  14. The Turk, who had for some time been conducted in chains with the rear-guard, was now interrogated as to his motives in so misrepresenting the nature of the country, and misleading the Spaniards.

  15. His enemies have in view to cover up their iniquities by misleading the King.

  16. Ruses of war or stratagems are deceit employed during military operations for the purpose of misleading the enemy.

  17. Let us examine, then, more closely than has usually been done, the case from which the misleading analogy is drawn.

  18. The science of legislation is an incorrect and misleading expression.

  19. It wasn't as if I were misleading anybody, or anybody were losing money by me.

  20. I shall be most happy," said Gerald, with irreproachable and misleading politeness.

  21. In so doing the material is often arranged in an entirely misleading sense and insertions are made wherever it seems necessary.

  22. It may easily be believed that the term "subdivision" was a misleading one to these early experimenters.

  23. Hence it was necessary to maintain a constant vigilance to defeat the insidious attacks of carping critics and others who would attempt to injure the Edison system by misleading statements.

  24. This arrangement tends to obviate any misleading deflections that might arise through changes in the battery.

  25. We shall take this opportunity to put the student of philosophy upon his guard against its misleading tendency.

  26. Moreover, unless we are constantly on the alert, the intellectual habit of using all our direct knowledge as material for analysis and classification ends by completely misleading us as to what it is that we do actually know.

  27. With renewed assurances that the enterprise is being gracefully conducted, however ill-digested and misleading these immature compositions may appear.

  28. Experiments on animals were far too much resorted to, and their frequently misleading results accepted as final, whilst observations on man did not receive the attention their importance demanded.

  29. To my mind this is absolutely bad and misleading advice.

  30. I can hardly say too often that there is no such thing as the mystery of golf, any more than there is, in reality, such a thing as the soul of golf, but the mystery of golf is a meaningless and misleading term.

  31. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury will attract especial interest in view of the many misleading statements that have been made as to the state of the public revenues.

  32. It is unrealistic and misleading to hold out the hope that the Federal Government can move into every neighborhood and clean up crime.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misleading" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    airy; ambiguous; apparent; autistic; beguiling; catchy; chimerical; confused; corruption; counterfeit; deceitful; deceiving; deceptive; delusive; devious; dreamy; dubious; equivocal; erroneous; evasive; fallacious; false; fantastic; fantastical; fictitious; fishy; hallucinatory; illusive; illusory; imaginary; lying; meretricious; misdirection; misleading; mystification; ostensible; perversion; phantasmagoric; phantasmal; phantom; plausible; questionable; seeming; sophistic; sophistry; specious; spectral; supposititious; tortuous; treacherous; tricky; unfounded; unreal; unsubstantial; untrue; untruthful; vain; visionary