Word: misleading
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...curious posters and dime novel covers used to publicize "Virgin Land" must not mislead you into thinking that this book is an entertaining collection of Americana. It is a serious analytical work based on profound research into American history, not light pleasure reading...
...doubtless aware," replied the Ministry gravely, "that Regulation No. 1 of the Defense Regulations [covering sales of food] makes it an offense to mislead as to the nature, substance and quality of a food, or in particular as to its nutritional or dietary value. In the Ministry's opinion, the use of the word 'milk' might be held to contravene the said regulation on the grounds that this indicates the presence of milk, and as such suggests that the wine has certain special nutritive qualities. We advise you to omit the word 'milk' from...
...Labor Government's plan at first hand, "that this program is working remarkably well and that it is a good thing for Britain. I can see now that most of the critics of our proposal in the United States have, whether deliberately or through ignorance, tried to mislead the American people on the facts about the British program...
...Ministry of Education had occupied the palace consistory "with the assistance of the security police," had confiscated the central treasury of the Prague diocese and other diocesan property. The Communists were using Beran's official stationery and seal for communications in the archbishop's name designed to mislead the faithful...
Rivera now vows that he was never a Trotskyite, and that he sheltered Stalin's enemy merely out of kindness, "despite his political errors." Rivera's own bitterly anti-Stalin writings, he explains solemnly, were "just a trick to mislead the stockholders of Bethlehem Steel." But the Reds have reason to know that there is always one more trick in Rivera's trunk. When he applied for readmission to the party, in 1946, their response was a horrified no. "So I have no right," he says with elephantine humility, "to call myself a Communist...