Spurious vs Misleading - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between spurious and misleading

is that spurious is false, not authentic, not genuine while misleading is deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression.

As a verb misleading is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun misleading is

a deception that misleads.

spurious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

false, not authentic, not genuine

* 2013 , Russell Brand, Russell Brand and the GQ awards: 'It's amazing how absurd it seems''' (in ''The Guardian , 13 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/sep/13/russell-brand-gq-awards-hugo-boss]

We witness that there is a relationship between government, media and industry that is evident even at this most spurious and superficial level. These three institutions support one another. We know that however cool a media outlet may purport to be, their primary loyalty is to their corporate backers. We know also that you cannot criticise the corporate backers openly without censorship and subsequent manipulation of this information.

(archaic) bastardly, illegitimate

* Milton

her spurious firstborn

Synonyms

* (false) counterfeit, fake, false, bogus * See also * See also

Antonyms

* (false) genuine, representative

Derived terms

* spuriously * spuriousness

misleading

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression.

Derived terms

* unmisleading

Verb

(head)

Noun

(en noun)

A deception that misleads.

* 2012 , Jennifer Mather Saul, Lying, Misleading, and What is Said (page 70)

According to this tradition, acts of deception that are mere misleadings are morally better than acts of deception that are lies.

Anagrams

* *