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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, apparent, apparitional, autistic, beguiling, bewildering, bum steer, catchy, chimeric, college of Laputa, conflict, confounding, corruption, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusional, delusionary, delusive, delusory, dereistic, disaccord, discord, distracting, dreamlike, dreamy, dubious, erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic, fishy, hallucinatory, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory, imaginary, inaccurate, jangle, jar, misdirecting, misdirection, miseducative, misguidance, misguiding, misinformation, misinforming, misinstruction, misinstructive, misknowledge, mismatch, misteaching, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, ostensible, perplexing, perversion, phantasmagoric, phantasmal, phantom, puzzling, questionable, seeming, self-deceptive, self-deluding, sophistical, sophistry, specious, spectral, supposititious, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unactual, unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, wrong
Dictionary Results for misleading:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
misleading
    adj 1: 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" [syn:
           deceptive, misleading, shoddy]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Misleading \Mis*lead"ing\, a.
   Leading astray; delusive.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mislead \Mis*lead"\ (m[i^]s*l[=e]d"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   Misled (m[i^]s*l[e^]d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Misleading.]
   [AS. misl[=ae]dan. See Mis-, and Lead to conduct.]
   To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide
   into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
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         Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you.
                                                  --Bacon.
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         To give due light
         To the mislead and lonely traveler.      --Milton.
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   Syn: To delude; deceive. See Deceive.
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