- deceptive: designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"; "shoddy business practices"
- (mislead) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions; "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver"
- (mislead) misinform: give false or misleading information to
- Deception, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, and subterfuge are acts to propagate beliefs that are not true, or not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission). Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, sleight of hand. It can employ distraction, camouflage or concealment. ...
- Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression
- (mislead) To lead astray, in a false direction; To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression; To deceptively trick into something wrong; To accidentally or intentionally confuse
- (Mislead) To lead astray in action or conduct, to lead into error, to cause to err; A representation may be literally true but misleading
- To lead into error; deceive or delude.
- inviting a false belief
- Misleading is when a person tells a statement that isn't an outright lie, but still has the purpose of making someone believe in an untruth.