Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lampoon, the moral of which was that we should all cheat did we not cower before threatened rustication. The tone of the paper is of course not serious, but such a treatment of the subject even in mocking vein is to be avoided as dangerous and apt to mislead. Were such a sentiment prevalent, we have no doubt that cheating would tend to become more instead of less common...
...politics the terse campaign cry, the long campaign parade, and the eloquent speakers are all used to mislead people by numbers and effects. In advertising, numbers and bigness are used to convince people of excellence. Often our sense of humor instead of our reason is appealed to by advertisers, salesmen, and speakers...
...result of all these devices to mislead us depends on the fact that they suggest vividly those things which we wish to believe...