misinterpret
— Verb
– English
~ interpret wrongly; "I misread Hamlet all my life!"
misinterpretation
— Noun
– English
~ putting the wrong interpretation on; "his misinterpretation of the question caused his error"; "there was no mistaking her meaning"
mislabeled
— Adjective
– English
~ branded or labeled falsely and in violation of statutory requirements; "confiscated the misbranded drugs"
mislaid
— Adjective
– English
~ lost temporarily; as especially put in an unaccustomed or forgotten place; "the mislaid hat turned up eventually"; "misplaced tickets"
mislay
— Verb
– English
~ place (something) where one cannot find it again; "I misplaced my eyeglasses"
mislead
— Verb
– English
~ give false or misleading information to
mislead
— Verb
– English
~ lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions; "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver"
misleader
— Noun
– English
~ someone who leads astray (often deliberately)
misleading
— Adjective
– English
~ designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"
misleadingly
— Adverb
– English
~ in a misleading way; "the exam looked deceptively easy"