Sentence examples for if misleading from inspiring English sources

"It's Doyle from headquarters," was one of his true, if misleading, ways to begin a conversation.

Just like that he painted a vivid, if misleading, portrait of nightlife in northwestern Louisiana.

In a recent filing, Mr. Clinton disputed the main charge against him -- that he lied under oath when he denied having had a sexual relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky -- by continuing to insist that his answers were technically accurate if misleading.

What intelligence was passed on to them was, if anything, misleading.

The TV coverage of the Democratic convention was disappointing, if not misleading.

Even worse, they often feel that the assessments are over-simplified, if not misleading.

Yet there there is something about the concept of "honour crime" that is blurry, if not misleading.

It also stated that "given this asymmetry, the BBC's concern with balance gave an impression of equality between the two sides which was fundamentally, if unintentionally, misleading".

So intense and extensive is this dynamic that the very term "African art" is at some important level useless, if not misleading.

Natorp's formulation is slightly, if excusably, misleading here.

His wiseguy attitude and holier-than-thou responses to serious questions regarding his candidate's shortcomings are whimsical, if not misleading.