What is the meaning of misleading?

verb

• Lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions.
  • usage: "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver"
  • synonyms: mislead, misdirect, misguide, lead astray
• Give false or misleading information to.
  • synonyms: misinform, mislead

adjective

• Designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: deceptive, shoddy