Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression, even if technically true.
The problem does not appear so hopeless when misleading metaphor is discarded.1926, A[rthur] [S]tanley Eddington, “Survey of the Problem”, in The Internal Constitution of the Stars, page 1:
According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.2012, Jennifer Mather Saul, Lying, Misleading, and What is Said, page 70: