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'misleadingly' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adverb often used to describe something that gives a misleading impression. For example, you can say: "The photograph was misleadingly small, making the room appear much bigger than it actually was."
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misleadingly
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In a misleading manner.
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The amended clause 10, entitled somewhat misleadingly "Savings", is designed to prevent officers from committing a crime when they remotely access computers of suspected criminals.
They're what the 2011 census misleadingly described as "white British" before announcing they are now a minority in the capital.
On CNN, Paul came close to saying that Clapper, the director of national intelligence, should step down after Clapper misleadingly told the Senate intelligence committee in March that the National Security Agency did "not wittingly" collect data on Americans' communications.
Juliette Binoche, a French film star, appeared in a play titillatingly (if misleadingly) entitled "Naked".
If a court granted preliminary approval for a case to proceed, lawyers representing this "class" would be able to demand vast amounts of internal information to see whether managers had ever spoken misleadingly about the factors affecting the share price.
He points to a recent row in which a BBC reporter accused Neal's Yard, a high-street shop, of claiming that its homeopathic remedies could prevent malaria (Neal's Yard says the story was misleadingly edited).Happily for sceptics, there is a countervailing trend.
While alternatives must be found to replace Wall Street's declining revenue, the "iPod tax"—as it has been somewhat misleadingly dubbed might not be the most effective policy.
Ministers and senior policemen look at Mr Kelly and the members of the restorative-justice panels and see bombers in transition; the SDLP, the McCartneys and unionists see only misleadingly peaceful masks.
Papua New Guinea, Australia's nearest neighbour, was lumped with two other countries under a heading "Melanesian Mayhem"—not altogether misleadingly, in the light of the recent attempted coup in Papua New Guinea.
More important, the government's figures misleadingly include land purchases and mergers and acquisitions.
By contrast, rates of cigarette use in India and Bangladesh are misleadingly low because both sexes favour smokeless tobacco and bidis (tobacco rolled in a tendu or temburni leaf).
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