The phrase "a misleading answer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a response that is deceptive or not accurate, potentially leading someone to a false conclusion.
Example: "The politician's statement was criticized for being a misleading answer to the question about his policies."
Alternatives: "a deceptive response" or "an inaccurate reply."
But I don't want it to be a misleading answer.
During his Senate confirmation, he was asked about these multiple accounts, providing what some senators considered a misleading answer.
And Stephen Cambone, Mr. Rumsfeld's under secretary for intelligence, gave at best a misleading answer when he testified under oath that it was his "guess" that President Bush would take the issue under advisement should it ever come up.
Even the Vatican concluded after a six year investigation that "New Age is a misleading answer to the oldest hopes of man", criticising the most clearly sacrilegious and idolatrous aspects of the lifestyle, particularly those taken from Eastern traditions: feng shui, yoga, meditation and so on.
The FairTaxers give a misleading answer to the first question everyone asks about their idea: How big will the tax be?
Cardinal Paul Poupard, then-president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said the "New Age is a misleading answer to the oldest hopes of man".
Databases did not get credit for providing an incorrect or misleading answer; however, they also did not suffer a penalty or negative score (such as subtracting one point from scope).
In that case, the court ruled that a defendant could not be convicted of perjury simply for giving an evasive or misleading answer if the defendant's testimony was not false.
He was convicted of giving an evasive and misleading answer when asked whether Greg Anderson, his former trainer, had ever injected him.
"In this particular case, we must determine whether a single truthful but evasive or misleading answer could constitute evidence of obstruction of justice," Judge N.R. Smith wrote in another concurrence, signed by three judges.
