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Misleading in sentence

432 examples of Misleading in a sentence

And to claim that something as diverse, and sometimes vague, as a religious faith can be pinned to a fixed ideological position, because of certain ancient texts, is utterly misleading.
When we resort to psychologically comforting but misleading assumptions about terrorism, we hamper our own understanding of political violence in general – and hence weaken our ability to avert or minimize it.
And some countries do indeed differ from Egypt to such an extent as to make potential lessons misleading.
If many such discouraged workers have left the labor market, a recovery of the unemployment rate to pre-recession levels can be misleading.
In 2007, several executives of the parent company of Purdue Pharma, which markets OxyContin, pleaded guilty to misleading doctors, regulators, and patients about the risk of addiction associated with the drug.
The dream of improving the world disguised a farce that affected not only a single life, as in Cervantes’ story, and affected not only the misleading army of buffoons believed to be missionaries.
So, maybe the word “overheated” is misleading.
Presenting a drop this way is misleading, and might encourage some panic selling.
But the story they tell is fragmented, incomplete, and at times even misleading.
While the US has problems, it hardly fits the description of absolute decline in ancient Rome, and the analogy to British decline, however popular, is similarly misleading.
Either way, fuzzy statements about hegemonic decline would again prove misleading.
With more data at their disposal, scientists find more patterns to study; it takes science to judge which are meaningful and which are misleading.
It is unclear that drug use in Mexico is extending more widely into the population: alarming rates of addiction growth are misleading, because addiction starts from an extremely low base.
The image of an irresistible populist “wave” was always misleading.
Congressional bills aimed at benefiting powerful constituencies are generally given appealing (and misleading) names.
Of course, that number is somewhat misleading, given Europe’s lack of military integration.
But their sharp distinction between the country’s economic interests and the interests of US multinational companies is misleading.
The 5% figure is grossly misleading, with surrounding areas taken or earmarked for expansion, roadways joining settlements with each other and to Jerusalem, and wide arterial swaths providing water, sewage, electricity, and communications.
Instead, America’s favorable borrowing terms attest to the power of misleading government accounting.
Yet the comparison with what the French call laicité is misleading.
Even in Tokyo, the air of normalcy is misleading.
Indeed, CBA provides a misleading basis even for prioritizing policies within a sector.
But this picture, based on Africa’s most corrupt regimes, is unfair and misleading – like claiming that all Europeans are guilty of “ethnic cleansing” because of what happened in the former Yugoslavia.
But the appearance of continuity is misleading.
In other words, senior government officials do not always know what is occurring at the operational level – or understand how provocative or misleading it may be.
Warnings about competitive devaluations are misleading.
Unfortunately, the political debate is distorted by misleading statistics that grossly understate these gains.
Lebanon often struggles to attract funding because of its status as a middle-income country, but this label is misleading, as it does not take into account serious structural weaknesses that pre-date the Syrian crisis or the huge proportion of the resident population composed of refugees from Syria, Palestine, and Iraq living in abject poverty.
If so, the gloomy predictions of absolute American decline will turn out to be as misleading as similar predictions in decades past.
Using “hold” in this way is both completely conventional and deeply misleading.
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