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# misleading

«misleading» in Mova's school dictionary: **Giving people a wrong idea, even if not every word is a lie** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (misleading; more misleading, most misleading); verb form (present participle of mislead: mislead, misleads, misled, misleading)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Giving people a wrong idea, even if not every word is a lie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misleading/#m1)

2) (verb form) Leading someone the wrong way or making them believe something false. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misleading/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and science a misleading graph or question makes you think the numbers say something they do not, for example a bar chart whose scale does not start at zero. In everyday life and safety it warns about adverts, headlines and online posts that trick people. Phrases: misleading information, a misleading headline, misleading advert, be misleading.

### examples

- The advert was misleading because the toy was much smaller than in the picture. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misleading/#x1)
- That graph is misleading: the bars start at 50, not at 0. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misleading/#x2)
- It is misleading to say the test was easy when half the class failed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misleading/#x3)
- He gave the teacher a misleading answer about his homework. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misleading/#x4)
- Some headlines online are misleading, so check the full story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misleading/#x5)
- The sign was misleading and sent us down the wrong path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misleading/#x6)
- You are misleading everyone by leaving out the cost of postage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misleading/#x7)

### note

It is an adjective here, not a noun: a misleading claim. Past of mislead is misled (not «misleaded»). Misleading is not quite the same as lying: the words can be true but leave a false picture. In maths problems a misleading detail is an extra number that is not needed; spot it and leave it out.

### In the corpora

- [Headlines are written to make you click and can be misleading, so read beyond them and check other sources.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/314-too-good-offers-scams-and-checking-news/16/)
- [Headlines are written to make you click and can be misleading, so read beyond the headline.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/335-fake-websites-fake-news-bots-skipping-class-surprises-and-trust/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «misleading» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misleading/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.