misleading phrase
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmisleadingandphrase
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misleading
adjective
uk/ˌmɪsˈliː.dɪŋ/us/ˌmɪsˈliː.dɪŋ/
causing someone to believe something that is ...
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phrase
noun[C]
uk/freɪz/us/freɪz/
language
a group of words that is part of, rather than the whole of, ...
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(Definition ofmisleadingandphrasefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The wit of man, of a man in a fix, could not devise a more vague andmisleadingphrase.
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It is amisleadingphrasewhich seems to imply some non-military connexion.
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The intergovernmental conference on institutional reform is called political union, although that is a somewhatmisleadingphrase.
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Therefore, when you speak of buildings and improvements being rated you are simply using amisleadingphrase.
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There could hardly be a moremisleadingphrase.
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Perhaps in this way we can rid ourselves of that most damaging andmisleadingphrase, "the two sides of industry".
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In his view, "fast breeder" is amisleadingphrase.
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That phrase will be more acceptable to the tax-paying public than themisleadingphrase, "paying farmers to do nothing".
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That is a very ambiguous andmisleadingphrase.
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That is a verymisleadingphrase, because there is no such person as the average politician.
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I have always thought that that is a somewhatmisleadingphrase.
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I think that is amisleadingphrase.
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There is no moremisleadingphrase.
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It is rather amisleadingphrase.
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At that period it turned out to be rather amisleadingphraseand it fell rapidly into disuse; but it is coming into its own now.
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That in itself is amisleadingphrase.
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That is a slightlymisleadingphrase.
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I hope we are going to get away from those two dangerously misleading phrases.
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Out of his limited repertoire of tired and misleading phrases, "bringing an end to boom and bust" is the most overused and misleading.
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Something has been said about "self-determination"—one of the most misleading phrases of modern times.
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