mislead

[ mis-leed ]

/ mɪsˈlid /

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verb (used with object), mis·led, mis·lead·ing.

to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.

to lead into error of conduct, thought, or judgment.

verb (used without object), mis·led, mis·lead·ing.

to be misleading; tend to deceive: vague directions that often mislead.

Origin of mislead

before 1050; Middle English misleden, Old English mislǣdan. See mis-¹, lead¹

SYNONYMS FOR mislead

1 misguide, misdirect.

2 delude, deceive.

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OTHER WORDS FROM mislead

mis·lead·er, noun un·mis·led, adjective

Words nearby mislead

miskito, misknow, miskolc, mislabel, mislay, mislead, misleading, misleared, mislike, mislocate, mismanage

Example sentences from the Web for misled

Wisner continues to feel angry toward the agency because she believes she was misled.

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All I had in those days was a monstrous lack of ego which therefore required huge injections of actorly ego and misled people.

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The president came to believe Shamir misled him on the settlement issue, or flat-out lied to him.

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“He and we have been misled in trying [Cruise] on as a hero, a kind of superman,” he recently wrote.

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That, in turn, could make it less likely that the Court would be misled by compromised science.

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Your cleverness has misled you and has hitherto done you far more evil than good.

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He had no learning; he was not misled by the label on the bottle—for that is what learning largely meant in his time.

The Victorian Age in Literature |G. K. Chesterton
The masses accept their opinions, and seldom question their accuracy; and yet the masses are often misled.

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Paine was not misled by the proverbs that wolves had written for sheep.

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Let us hope, however, that you have been misled into over-estimating his intentions and feelings.

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British Dictionary definitions for misled

mislead

/ (mɪsˈliːd) /

verb -leads, -leading or -led (tr)

to give false or misleading information to

to lead or guide in the wrong direction

Derived forms of mislead

misleader, noun

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mislead

verb (used with object), mis·led, mis·lead·ing.

verb (used without object), mis·led, mis·lead·ing.

Origin of mislead

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British Dictionary definitions for misled

verb -leads, -leading or -led (tr)

Derived forms of mislead

BROWSE DICTIONARY

Learning

mislead

verb (used with object), mis·led, mis·lead·ing.

verb (used without object), mis·led, mis·lead·ing.

Origin of mislead

SYNONYMS FOR mislead

OTHER WORDS FROM mislead

Words nearby mislead

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verb -leads, -leading or -led (tr)

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