What is the meaning of misleading?

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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

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