misleading

Example Sentences

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An advert for Beauty Pie's LED face mask has been banned for making misleading anti-wrinkle claims.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Reynolds said Kismet had manufactured and supplied kebabs to takeaways and restaurants with labels that indicated a specific quantity of specified meat, which the firm knew to be incorrect, thereby fraudulently misleading customers.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Oregon and Pennsylvania also took the charity to court over the misleading jingle in 2009, resulting in a $130,000 fine and a requirement to disclose its affiliations in all advertisements.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

The Justice Department celebrated the verdict after years of looking into whether short sellers distort markets with noisy, misleading campaigns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Similarly it is misleading to think of the rocks as flowing in anything like the way we think of materials flowing on the surface.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson