What's the difference between misconceiving and misleading?
Misconceiving
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Misconceive
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet the terrible suffering of its people over the past five years shows that the single currency is a fundamentally misconceived project.
(2) I just felt very deeply that this was something that was completely misconceived.
(3) Sky hit back in its own submission, also made public, describing the complaint as "misconceived, exaggerated and cynically self-serving".
(4) "That they will be run at least in part by former generals and ex-defence secretaries reveals just how misconceived these plans are."
(5) Labour's higher education spokesman, Gareth Thomas, said: "The idea that fees of over £6,000 would be the exception rather than the norm, as independent experts were warning even before the fees vote, looks even more ill-considered and misconceived."
(6) That criticism could not be more misconceived,” he said.
(7) The policies, like closing mosques and holding a royal commission, are, like most One Nation’s policies, misconceived.
(8) The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the UK music industry trade body, said BT and TalkTalk's legal challenge against the act is "misconceived and will fail".
(9) A combination of negligence and misconceived strategic decisions (like the 2005 Nato deployment in rural Pashtun regions, which was felt there as an occupation) have had big consequences.
(10) Somewhere, rumour has it, there is Von Trier as well, although the Danish film-maker has taken a vow of silence since a miscued (and arguably misconceived) joke at the Cannes film festival led to him being cast out like Satan.
(11) Looking back at the life-changing impact libraries had on her teenage self, she said, bought home to her what ahorribly misconceived, short-sighted and disastrous policy it is for local authorities to close their libraries.
(12) Junior doctors legally challenge Jeremy Hunt's 'misconceived' contract Read more It is not difficult to see why the beneficiaries of this failing system support it, as astonishing amounts of money can be made.
(13) This latest attempt by the DWP to downplay such a massive error demonstrates not only how misconceived the "spare room subsidy" is, but also the futility of seeking to conceal its wider social harms.
(14) In October 2003, an appeal against his sentence was thrown out by a high court judge as "hopeless" and "misconceived".
(15) A form of assisted dying was in place for some time, the Liverpool "care pathway", introduced as a compassionate act but tragically misconceived.
(16) George Osborne’s planned balanced budget law is completely misconceived – we can certainly both agree on that – but I hardly think we could have expected a much easier ride with Berlin, instead of London, setting the ground rules.
(17) Branding his decision “misconceived”, they add that Hunt has no power to tell foundation trust hospitals, local councils or GPs surgeries who to employ.
(18) The BMA is also seeking a judicial review over imposition, though government lawyers have argued this is “misconceived”.
(19) He writes in his Trojan Horse chapter: "It is reassuring to imagine that the problem we face is restricted to a very small group of individuals … who will be easy to identify and deal with without having to engage on a broader front," but says this approach is fatally misconceived.
(20) For example, ever since the misconceived consultation on the so-called replacement for star ratings, there has been silence.
Misleading
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mislead
(a.) Leading astray; delusive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(2) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(3) The use of 100% oxygen to calculate intrapulmonary shunting in patients on PEEP is misleading in both physiological and methodological terms.
(4) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(5) The derived data lacks specificity, however, and, as such, is frequently misleading.
(6) Families believed that physicians would not listen (13% of sample), would not talk openly (32%), attempted to mislead them (48%), or did not warn about long-term neurodevelopmental problems (70%).
(7) Serological findings in five cases where Paul-Bunnel Davidsohn (PBD) test results were misleading, are presented.
(8) Second, the commonly drawn analogy between blocking in randomized trials and matching in cohort studies is misleading when one considers the impact of matching on covariate distributions.
(9) In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and that a misguided strategy could damage rather than help Israel's victims.
(10) At the end of the article the Department for Work and Pensions is quoted as saying that it’s “misleading to link food bank use to benefit delays and sanctions”.
(11) The authors argue that these "principles" do not function as claimed, and that their use is misleading both practically and theoretically.
(12) They claim that Zero Dark Thirty is "grossly inaccurate and misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the capture".
(13) The European court of human rights has accused British newspapers, including the Daily Mail, of publishing "seriously misleading" reports.
(14) This report indicates that hepatic copper levels vary greatly in acute liver failure, and that estimates from a single biopsy specimen may be misleading as to the cause of the underlying liver disease.
(15) Maybe the claimants were politicians who took a strict stance on moral issues, or people who had misleadingly used their family image to seek office or commercial gain?
(16) However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.
(17) Again, the government is deliberately misleading the public by aggregating figures over an area which no one would describe as theirs.
(18) But the Tories edited out a crucial final sentence in which Balls told BBC Radio Leeds on 9 January : “But I think we can be tougher and we should be and we will.” Labour seized on the Tory editing of the Balls interview to accuse the Tories of misleading people to defend their refusal to tackle tax avoidance.
(19) We therefore conclude that the clinical management of bronchiolitis requires close monitoring of body wt and plasma osmolality-urinary osmolality relationship; serum sodium levels may be misleading.
(20) It is not only the misleading newspaper headlines about this U-turn which are causing confusion.