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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mislead
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a distorted/misleading picture (=one that is not accurate)
▪ The media coverage left many people with a distorted picture.
▪ These figures give a misleading picture of the company’s financial health.
a false/misleading statement (=one that is not true)
▪ She is accused of making false statements to obtain a passport.
a misleading report (=likely to make you believe something that is not true)
▪ This isn’t the first time the industry has published misleading reports based on incomplete data.
a wrong/misleading impression
▪ The advertisement gave a misleading impression of the product.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
deliberately
▪ She had just assumed ... She had assumed rather a lot, it seemed - or perhaps Caro had deliberately misled her?
▪ That statement was silent on the question of whether Gingrich deliberately misled the committee or skirted tax law.
▪ The most generous excuse one can make is that Brooke was deliberately misled by his advisers.
▪ The lawsuit would likely allege that Symington got the loan because he deliberately misled the pension funds about his financial condition.
■ NOUN
committee
▪ That statement was silent on the question of whether Gingrich deliberately misled the committee or skirted tax law.
people
▪ Jones was very subtle about his use of sexuality to mislead his people.
▪ Most leaders understand this; few intentionally mislead people about meaning.
public
▪ This is incorrect and could mislead the public.
▪ The level and quality of public debate generated by rightwing newspapers have been risible and misleading.
▪ In the second the press is restrained by its own professional Code of Practice not to misrepresent or mislead the public.
▪ Does the name the Catholic Marriage Advisory Council, mislead the public?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Agents are accused of misleading clients into signing up for savings plans that were actually insurance policies.
▪ Livingstone says there was no attempt to intentionally mislead the public.
▪ The report is a deliberate and obvious attempt to mislead.
▪ They were accused of misleading customers about the nutritional value of their product.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I can assure you there was no intention to mislead our insurers.
▪ She had just assumed ... She had assumed rather a lot, it seemed - or perhaps Caro had deliberately misled her?
▪ Statements by officials, including some made by ministers in Parliament, have been used too often to mislead in connection with Ulster affairs.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mislead

Mislead \Mis*lead"\ (m[i^]s*l[=e]d"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Misled (m[i^]s*l[e^]d"); p. pr. & vb. n. Misleading.] To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.

Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you.
--Bacon.

To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler.
--Milton.

Syn: To delude; deceive. See Deceive.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mislead

Old English mislædan "to mislead," common Germanic compound (compare Middle Low German, Middle Dutch misleiden, Old High German misseleiten, German missleiten, Danish mislede); see mis- (1) + lead (v.). Related: misleading; misled.

Wiktionary
mislead

vb. 1 (context literally English) To lead astray, in a false direction. 2 To deceive by telling lies or otherwise giving a false impression. 3 To deceptively trick into something wrong. 4 To accidentally or intentionally confuse.

WordNet
mislead

  1. v. lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions; "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver" [syn: misdirect, misguide, lead astray]

  2. give false or misleading information to [syn: misinform]

  3. [also: misled]

Usage examples of "mislead".

He is quiet, but always appraising, with a gentle laugh--all of it conveniently misleading.

Miriam deemed it not impossible that Mallard had made her his present of pictures simply to mislead her thought when she was gone.

He can play tricks on the reader, hiding important information, misleading and misdirecting, then bringing back forgotten themes and characters at the moment of greatest effect.

It probably misled her, as if he had good news to tell, and even though that was a lie, he could not alter it.

Other men with little of this faculty, but with only so much of it as will enable them to imitate the tones and gestures of some admired actor, are misled by their vanity into the belief that they also are actors, that they also could move an audience as their original moves it.

Beware of Aswydd influences, have none of that house near you, have your food tasted, and do not be misled by plausible villains.

Mort was even misled about the nature of the secret bank account at River National.

You know that I have long enough tried to find work, but I have been misled by the common tendency of the time.

Dick could find no answer except to imagine that his compass had misled him.

We are misled, he argues, by a mere resemblance between the schools and universities of the past and the schools and post-school education of the modern period.

It had been necessary to fight and destroy for ever vast systems of loyalties and beliefs that divided, misled and wasted the energies of mankind.

But the good news is we got half our money back, because they really misled us.

It seems that I have unwittingly misled you for the past fifteen years.

And from their Vow, they learned that they had been misled by Earthpower.

She could not be misled by despair because she did not expect herself to be greater than she was.