adjective
having an appearance or character that leads one astray or into error
the president made several misleading statements to the people
Synonyms: beguiling, deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusive, delusory, fallacious, false
Related Word: casuistical, sophistical, specious; wrong; bewildering, confounding, distracting, perplexing, puzzling; deceitful, inaccurate
Contrasted words: clarifying, elucidative, explanatory, illuminating