If you describe something as misleading, you mean that it gives you a wrong idea or impression. It would be misleading to say that we were friends The article contains several misleading statements. + misleadingly mis·lead·ing·ly The data had been presented misleadingly. likely to make someone believe something that is not true
tending to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"