What is another word for mis-leading?
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Pronunciation:
[ mˈɪslˈiːdɪŋ], [ mˈɪslˈiːdɪŋ], [ m_ˈɪ_s_l_ˈiː_d_ɪ_ŋ]
Related words: misleading information, information overload, fake news, false information, misinformation, misleading headlines, fake news articles, fake news headline
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Similar words for mis-leading:
- counterfeit (adjective)
- deceitful (adjective)
- deceptive (adjective)
- delusive (adjective)
- delusory (adjective)
- devious (adjective)
- dishonest (adjective)
- elusive (adjective)
- equivocal (adjective)
- evasive (adjective)
- fallacious (adjective)
- false (adjective)
- fantastic (adjective)
- fictitious (adjective)
- hallucinatory (adjective)
- illusive (adjective)
- illusory (adjective)
- illusory/illusive (adjective)
- invented (adjective)
- lying (adjective)
- meretricious (adjective)
- misleading (adjective)
- perfidious (adjective)
- perjured (adjective)
- phantasmagoric (adjective)
- puzzling (adjective)
- sham (adjective)
- tortuous (adjective)
- treacherous (adjective)
- tricky (adjective)
- trumped up (adjective)
- two-faced (adjective)
- unfounded (adjective)
- unreal (adjective)
- untrue (adjective)
- vain (adjective)
- beguile (verb)
- belie (verb)
- betray (verb)
- blear (verb)
- bluff (verb)
- cajole (verb)
- cheat (verb)
- con (verb)
- confuse (verb)
- decoy (verb)
- delude (verb)
- disappoint (verb)
- distract (verb)
- double-cross (verb)
- dupe (verb)
- ensnare (verb)
- fob off (verb)
- garble (verb)
- hoodwink (verb)
- lie (verb)
- misinform (verb)
- mislead (verb)
- mock (verb)
- outwit (verb)
- outwit/outsmart (verb)
- perjure (verb)
- play dirty (verb)
- pretend (verb)
- seduce (verb)
- sell/sell out (verb)
- sham (verb)
- trick (verb)
- two-time (verb)
Synonyms for Mis-leading:
adj.
• counterfeit (adjective)- ersatz,
- queer,
- not kosher,
- imitation,
- pseudo,
- forged,
- bent,
- put-on,
- two-faced,
- won't fly,
- phony,
- misleading,
- plant,
- mock,
- faked,
- copied,
- fraudulent,
- framed,
- soft shell,
- pretentious,
- assumed,
- pretended,
- fishy,
- pirate,
- sham,
- not genuine,
- affected,
- feigned,
- bogus,
- crock,
- deceptive,
- snide,
- fictitious,
- brummagem,
- suppositious,
- hollywood.
- feline,
- untrustworthy,
- wily,
- knavish,
- sneaky,
- hypocritical,
- clandestine,
- Astucious,
- underhand,
- double-dealing,
- rascal,
- lying,
- shifty,
- mendacious,
- underhanded,
- cunning,
- indirect,
- illusory,
- Impostrous,
- sly,
- astute,
- slick,
- guileful,
- roguish,
- stealthy,
- untruthful,
- artful,
- foxy,
- counterfeit,
- designing,
- duplicitous,
- subtle,
- furtive,
- crafty,
- treacherous,
- insidious.
- seeming,
- bum,
- scheming,
- unreliable,
- oblique,
- fake,
- slippery,
- plausible,
- serpentine,
- Imposturous,
- off.
- Deviating,
- roundabout,
- Digressing,
- out-of-the-way,
- twisting,
- straying,
- digressory,
- detouring,
- rambling,
- confusing,
- tortuous,
- removed,
- circuitous,
- excursive,
- curving,
- diverting,
- flexuous,
- erratic,
- wandering,
- obscure,
- errant,
- bending,
- remote.
- sinister,
- unprincipled,
- cheating,
- disreputable,
- two-timing,
- unscrupulous,
- perfidious,
- elusive,
- hoodwinking,
- crooked,
- corrupt,
- traitorous,
- recreant,
- shady,
- villainous,
- sneaking,
- double-crossing,
- Backbiting,
- unfair,
- unctuous,
- Bluffing,
- Swindling.
- unspecific,
- phantom,
- volatile,
- indefinable,
- transient,
- shy,
- difficult to catch,
- Elusory,
- insubstantial,
- equivocal,
- stonewalling,
- occult,
- cagey,
- greasy,
- evanescent,
- fleeting,
- imponderable,
- fugitive,
- transitory,
- incomprehensible,
- fugacious,
- baffling,
- intangible.
- suspicious,
- Amphibological,
- borderline,
- fuzzy,
- indistinct,
- dubious,
- unintelligible,
- undecided,
- ambivalent,
- indefinite,
- unclear,
- hazy,
- indeterminate,
- suspect,
- questionable,
- tenebrous,
- clear as mud,
- with mixed feelings,
- unexplicit,
- problematic,
- vague,
- clouded,
- muzzy,
- open,
- muddled.
- reasonless,
- ungrounded,
- Unreasoned,
- incorrect,
- unfounded,
- unreasonable,
- unreal,
- illogical,
- mistaken,
- erroneous,
- irrational,
- invalid,
- sophistic,
- untrue,
- unsound,
- way off,
- mad.
- malevolent,
- contrary to fact,
- off the mark,
- Concocted,
- apocryphal,
- inexact,
- treasonable,
- malicious,
- venal,
- wicked,
- unfaithful,
- counterfactual,
- Canting,
- foul,
- distorted,
- Perjured,
- scoundrelly,
- mean,
- faithless,
- renegade,
- trumped up,
- faulty,
- disloyal,
- Forsworn,
- cooked-up,
- Misrepresentative,
- improper,
- dishonest,
- base,
- mythomaniac,
- rascally,
- dishonorable,
- apostate,
- falsehearted.
- extreme,
- unbelievable,
- wacky,
- implausible,
- peculiar,
- freakish,
- capricious,
- weird,
- ridiculous,
- far-fetched,
- ludicrous,
- incredible,
- odd,
- insane,
- singular,
- eccentric,
- hallucinatory,
- grotesque,
- whimsical,
- outlandish,
- artificial,
- out of sight,
- foreign,
- nonsensical,
- phantasmagorical,
- unlikely,
- absurd,
- fictional,
- comical,
- exotic,
- extravagant,
- preposterous,
- foolish,
- crazy,
- quaint,
- imaginative.
- made,
- fabricated,
- Created,
- mythical,
- fashioned,
- hyped up,
- trumped-up,
- romantic,
- invented,
- factitious,
- improvised,
- make-believe,
- fictive,
- simulated,
- supposititious,
- figmental,
- imagined,
- synthetic.
- loud,
- ornate,
- garish,
- glaring,
- tawdry,
- trashy,
- showy,
- superficial,
- chintzy,
- blatant,
- insincere,
- brazen,
- tinsel,
- plastic.
- perplexing,
- wrong,
- beguiling,
- catchy,
- delusory,
- casuistical,
- spurious,
- specious,
- ambiguous,
- deceitful,
- sophistical,
- confounding,
- delusive,
- inaccurate,
- false,
- puzzling,
- Deceiving,
- Distracting,
- Deluding,
- fallacious,
- tricky,
- bewildering,
- disingenuous,
- evasive,
- demagogic.
- involved,
- unaccountable,
- enigmatic,
- abstruse,
- mystifying,
- knotty,
- beyond one,
- inexplicable,
- difficult,
- unfathomable,
- surprising,
- hard,
- labyrinthine.
- ominous,
- icy,
- insecure,
- Jeopardous,
- chancy,
- Dissembled,
- perilous,
- fly-by-night,
- ticklish,
- hazardous,
- unsafe,
- unhealthy,
- menacing,
- risky,
- precarious,
- shaky,
- hairy,
- alarming,
- unstable,
- False-hearted.
- Witted,
- deep,
- keen,
- wry,
- smooth,
- clever,
- streetwise,
- shrewd,
- sharp,
- intelligent.
- idle,
- unwarranted,
- Foundationless,
- uncalled-for,
- unproven,
- unjustified,
- unsubstantiated,
- gratuitous,
- without foundation,
- groundless,
- baseless,
- bottomless,
- vain,
- off-base,
- without basis.
- immaterial,
- phantasmagoric,
- unsubstantial,
- legendary,
- nonexistent,
- nebulous,
- notional,
- fabled,
- reachy,
- fabulous,
- aerial,
- dreamlike,
- theoretical,
- impalpable,
- Storybook.
- profitless,
- trifling,
- shuck,
- empty,
- frivolous,
- fruitless,
- on a treadmill,
- senseless,
- paltry,
- in vicious circle,
- valueless,
- unproductive,
- petty,
- inefficacious,
- nugatory,
- otiose,
- barren,
- trivial,
- unimportant,
- puny,
- unavailing,
- sterile,
- no-win,
- pointless,
- worthless,
- unprofitable,
- void,
- not a prayer,
- abortive,
- going nowhere,
- time-wasting,
- bootless,
- slight,
- unnotable,
- insignificant.
v.
• beguile (verb)- play,
- impose on,
- suck in,
- have,
- string along,
- flimflam,
- take,
- mislead,
- shave,
- stick,
- con,
- jockey,
- burn,
- play for a sucker,
- gyp,
- manipulate,
- exploit,
- chisel,
- finesse.
- gloss over,
- hide,
- distort,
- falsify,
- warp,
- give the lie to,
- trump up,
- twist,
- disguise,
- color,
- garble,
- conceal,
- Miscolor,
- misstate.
- let down,
- play false,
- break trust,
- desert,
- walk out on,
- abandon,
- deliver up,
- jilt,
- knife,
- sell out,
- break faith,
- commit treason,
- stab in the back,
- break promise,
- bite the hand that feeds you,
- sell down the river,
- turn in,
- break with,
- go back on,
- turn state's evidence,
- inform on,
- inform against,
- cross,
- finger,
- turn informer,
- play judas,
- be unfaithful,
- blow the whistle,
- forsake.
- push,
- induce,
- build up,
- urge,
- jolly,
- work on,
- banter,
- get around,
- tantalize,
- soap,
- oil,
- lay it on thick,
- sweet-talk,
- apple polish,
- soften,
- wheedle,
- work over,
- brownnose,
- suck up to,
- crowd,
- maneuver,
- bootlick,
- make up to,
- play up to,
- blandish,
- butter up,
- entrap,
- decoy,
- stroke,
- sweeten up,
- rub the right way,
- massage,
- spread it on,
- hand a line,
- soft-soap,
- get next to,
- influence,
- argue into.
- milk,
- ream,
- take for a ride,
- caboodle,
- stiff,
- bamboozle,
- swindle,
- fleece,
- gouge,
- sandbag,
- trim,
- do a number on,
- skin,
- sucker,
- screw,
- double-deal,
- short,
- beat,
- finagle,
- pull one's leg,
- take out,
- two-time,
- bleed,
- crib,
- fast talk,
- give bum steer,
- jerk around,
- DO,
- diddle.
- coax,
- cajole,
- hornswoggle,
- chicane.
- demoralize,
- unsettle,
- fog,
- stir up,
- astonish,
- shame,
- discomfit,
- cloud,
- complicate,
- confound,
- upset,
- befuddle,
- muddle,
- discountenance,
- embarrass,
- disorient,
- frustrate,
- distract,
- rattle,
- worry,
- trouble,
- throw off,
- addle,
- nonplus,
- perturb,
- bemuse,
- darken,
- faze,
- becloud,
- stump,
- throw off balance,
- mystify,
- fluster,
- discompose,
- clutter,
- bedevil,
- fuddle,
- disconcert,
- involve,
- mortify,
- render uncertain,
- puzzle,
- baffle,
- perplex,
- mess up,
- abash,
- unhinge,
- daze,
- amaze.
- toll,
- come on,
- mousetrap,
- allure,
- wile,
- tout,
- lead up garden path,
- steer,
- fascinate,
- egg one on,
- ensorcell,
- shill,
- trap.
- fail,
- hinder,
- foil,
- cast down,
- chagrin,
- circumvent,
- dash hopes,
- fall short of,
- dissatisfy,
- leave in the lurch,
- vex,
- thwart,
- dumbfound,
- dash,
- dishearten,
- disillusion,
- balk,
- miscarry,
- tease,
- fall flat,
- put out,
- hamper,
- disgruntle,
- embitter,
- bring to naught,
- torment,
- stand up,
- not show,
- abort,
- fall down on,
- ruin prospects,
- bungle,
- founder,
- come to nothing,
- disenchant.
- turn aside,
- occupy,
- call away,
- entertain,
- unbalance,
- sidetrack,
- lead away,
- catch flies,
- frenzy,
- amuse,
- stall,
- madden,
- agitate,
- divert,
- bewilder,
- derange,
- draw away,
- disturb,
- mix up,
- engross,
- detract,
- abstract,
- harass.
- kid,
- dust,
- catch,
- spoof,
- pull something.
- jumble,
- confuse,
- belie,
- doctor,
- misquote,
- tamper with,
- slant,
- misinterpret,
- mutilate.
- pull a fast one,
- pull the wool over one's eyes,
- beat out of,
- take to the cleaners,
- take advantage of,
- buffalo.
- frame,
- be untruthful,
- concoct,
- fabricate,
- exaggerate,
- forswear,
- palter,
- bear false witness,
- bs,
- bull,
- invent,
- perjure,
- Misinstruct,
- dissemble,
- overdraw,
- Misspeak,
- make believe,
- fib,
- equivocate,
- prevaricate,
- dissimulate,
- malign,
- put up a front,
- promote.
- cover up,
- signify,
- doublespeak,
- bait and switch,
- double-talk,
- put up smoke screen,
- wrong steer,
- put on an act,
- put on false front.
- bilk,
- delude,
- shaft,
- double-cross,
- bait,
- lead astray,
- bluff,
- inveigle,
- misdirect,
- bunk,
- trick,
- entice,
- betray,
- put on,
- hoodwink,
- cozen,
- outwit,
- hoax,
- beguile,
- pervert,
- overreach,
- rip off,
- enmesh,
- lure,
- pull wool over eyes,
- hose,
- misinform,
- rope in,
- victimize,
- snow,
- seduce,
- scam,
- cheat,
- take in,
- lie,
- juggle,
- dupe,
- misguide,
- fool,
- fudge,
- deceive,
- gull,
- tempt,
- defraud,
- ensnare,
- entangle,
- lead on,
- misrepresent,
- Illude,
- rook.
- defy,
- defeat,
- challenge,
- disappoint,
- elude.
- outsmart,
- figure out,
- end run,
- Juke,
- JIP.
- pull a fast one on,
- outjockey,
- make a fool of,
- goose,
- worst,
- put one over on,
- outthink,
- fox,
- outmaneuver,
- cap,
- outgeneral,
- outdo,
- top,
- run circles around,
- make a monkey of,
- end-run,
- outguess.
- make out,
- stonewall,
- act,
- claim,
- pass off,
- whitewash,
- jazz,
- impersonate,
- shuck and jive,
- assume,
- allege,
- masquerade,
- lay claim,
- let on,
- be deceitful,
- malinger,
- fish,
- be hypocritical,
- purport,
- profess,
- claim falsely,
- pass oneself off as.
- make like,
- do a number,
- ape,
- imitate,
- fake it,
- create,
- play possum,
- copy.
How to use "Mis-leading" in context?
Misleading advertising is a commonly used tactic in order to sell products and services. It is a form of marketing that is deceptive in what it shows the consumer, or what the consumer believes is true. This can be broken down into five different categories:
1. Use of Conflicting Messages
In this type of misleading advertising, the advertiser sends two different messages that are in direct opposition to each other. An example of this would be a diet product that promotes that it will help you lose weight, while also claiming that it is a healthy snack.
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