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misleading

adj
/(ˌ)mɪsˈliːdɪŋ/

Etymology

From mislead + -ing.

  1. inherited from *missalaidijaną✻ — “to mislead”
  2. inherited from mislǣdan — “to mislead”
  3. inherited from mysleden
  4. suffixed as misleading — “mislead + ing”

Definitions

  1. Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.

    • The problem does not appear so hopeless when misleading metaphor is discarded.

  2. present participle and gerund of mislead

  3. A deception that misleads.

    • According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at misleading. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at misleading. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at misleading

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA