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misleading

 adjective
     
mis‧lead‧ing
likely to make someone believe something that is not true:
The article was misleading, and the newspaper has apologized.
seriously/highly/grossly etc misleading
These figures are highly misleading.
—misleadingly adverb:
The diagrams are misleadingly simple.
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