The chart's truncated vertical axis gave a misleading impression of the company's steady growth over the decade.
该图表的截断纵轴让人对该公司十年间的稳步增长产生了误导性的印象。
Curator Felix Adeyemi, who organized a similar exhibit at another museum, cautions that placing objects from vastly different eras side by side risks flattening their distinct historical contexts into a misleading sense of timeless sameness.
From a Cross-Text Connections question · Craft and Structure
An op-ed on housing policy spends its opening paragraphs methodically dismantling a popular but, in the author's view, misleading statistic, before pivoting to propose an alternative statistic the author considers more meaningful.
From a Text Structure and Purpose question · Craft and Structure
Which choice best defines “misleading”?
D — Giving the wrong idea or impression. “misleading” means giving the wrong idea or impression.
Which word means “giving the wrong idea or impression”?
D — misleading. “misleading” means giving the wrong idea or impression.
misleading — giving the wrong idea or impression. In Chinese: 误导的，令人误解的.
misleading is pronounced /ˌmɪsˈliːdɪŋ/.
The chart's truncated vertical axis gave a misleading impression of the company's steady growth over the decade. (该图表的截断纵轴让人对该公司十年间的稳步增长产生了误导性的印象。)
deceptive, ambiguous, fallacious — all close in meaning to misleading (giving the wrong idea or impression).
clear, accurate — each the opposite of misleading (giving the wrong idea or impression).
Yes. misleading is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.