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 (baseball, chess, politics, boxing, conundrums) intended perhaps to exercise and train to meet the deceitfulness of the world, the flesh, and the devil and so praiseworthy. Somewhere in between comes misleading for gain with all its shades from avarice to genial affectation. It is hard to find a word which may not innocently mislead or be made to lead astray by the guileful. If e.g. a man on shipboard makes the mistake of letting it get out that he is a "doctor" or a "professor" he may be invited to operate for appendicitis or to preside at Sunday service or give a boxing exhibit for the benefit of seamen's orphans. Of course he is not to blame unless he undertakes the job; a doctor of philosophy is just as good a doctor as a doctor of medicine or divinity and a professor of Assyriology just as good a professor as a professor of boxing — but he is misleading and would be blameworthy if from malice or vanity