The phrase "actually misleading" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is deceptive or not as it appears, often in a context where clarification is needed.
Example: "The advertisement claimed the product was the best on the market, but the fine print revealed it was actually misleading."
Alternatives: "truly deceptive" or "genuinely misleading".
"The statistics are actually misleading.
The oil industry's capture of the Minerals Management Service is actually misleading because the agency was so appalling and corrupt.
The festival's name, Mozart Week, is actually misleading, since the event lasts 11 days and offers much besides Mozart.
Gregory A. Kuhlman, a psychologist who directs the master's program in mental health counseling at Brooklyn College, said, "It's actually misleading to imply to couples that their happiness and success will be based on general compatibility".
And those numbers are actually misleading: Sanchez's one incompletion was a perfect pass to tight end Matthew Mulligan, who let the football hit him between the 8 and the 2 before it fell to the ground and negated what would have been a 15-yard gain.
(This popular way of stating the electromagnetic asymmetry is actually misleading.
Whether Credit Suisse was actually misled regarding the valuation of its mortgage positions will be a crucial issue in Mr. Serageldin's case.
But I'd like to think that even Times columnists don't twist their facts so much, even by picking and choosing, that I come away actually misled.
"In an age when great store is set on ensuring transparency for punters, with calls for official racecards to include details of wind operations on horses, and mares being in foal, for example, it is surely ill-advised to allow a situation in which information that appears in the public domain actually misled punters and racegoers".
"But the one thing I do know is that my fellow committee members, Margaret Hodge the chairman and I will be trying to get to the bottom of who's actually telling the truth and if anybody has actually mislead the committee in the past".
Some may still view the idea skeptically, in part because in this case it didn't actually mislead the police.
