misleading
He misleadingly suggested that his health care plan would provide health care for "all Americans."
That figure paints a misleadingly rosy picture.
The party's opinion poll lead is misleadingly high because their voters are less likely to turn out in elections.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dishonest
artificiality
bad faith
be rotten to the coreidiom
bent
cowboy
dubiously
false
finagle
fishy
fly-by-night
malfeasance
mendacious
mendaciously
misleading
perjured
under false pretencesphrase
underhand
unreliability
unreliable
unscrupulous

Examples of misleadingly

misleadingly
The desire to link dramatic-looking vases to performance has also led well-respected museums to display misleadingly described vases.
If this sounds critical, it is only that the book is rather misleadingly (and unnecessarily) sold under the promise of keeping the brain young.
Secondly, it presented itself in deliberately (but misleadingly) unassertive terms, aspiring in its constitution only to ' support and assist ' imperial projects.
But the characterization of these differences as a digital divide is misleadingly static.
And then it gradually dawns on one that the book is also misleadingly titled: it isn't really about the 'years' in question at all.
Because of this, various interpretations of the rhythm can be judged without the misleadingly authoritative appearance of a single rhythmic version imposed by the editor.
What happens on the screen, however, is misleadingly simple.
There are two ways in which this characterization may be misleadingly stark.
Already, some authors misleadingly declare that the city is made redundant by electronic connectivity.
However, this figure is misleadingly high for different reasons.
I think we probably agree that there are certain ways in which the term ' popular music' is widely but misleadingly used.
But this response is misleadingly weak.
We need to take seriously what he says about such faith, recognizing it as an important part of his argument rather than dimissing it as something carelessly or misleadingly included.
The word 'simple' is used misleadingly and often at the start of the book, in a manner that will make the worldly-wise tighten their seat belts.
If a high number of 'fails' occur, it would be possible for high-density layers to appear, misleadingly, as minima in the vertical profile of insect abundance.
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