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(Definition of misled from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of misled. misled. Researchers could be misled by the publications of the first category because they were usually censored by the government to fit its propaganda purposes. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
: to lead in a wrong direction or into a mistaken action or belief often by deliberate deceit. His comments were a deliberate attempt to mislead the public. intransitive verb. : to lead astray : give a wrong impression. exciting as they are, they mislead E. M. Forster. misleader noun. misleadingly. ˌmis-ˈlē-diŋ-lē. adverb. Synonyms. bamboozle.
From Washington Post. Owners of the bonds have been cooperating in an effort to force sellers to take back loans, saying they were misled about their quality. From Bloomberg. He admits to having misled several people who asked him about his sexuality directly. From The Atlantic. What's more he was misled by those he paid. From Voice of America.
to cause someone to believe something that is not true: The government has repeatedly misled the public, and we're here to protest. mislead sb about sth The advertising campaign intentionally misled consumers about whether the product was natural. mislead sb into doing sth Millions of people were misled into buying these 'low-risk' investments.
He didn't have a shred of it, had lied to her, misled her, cajoled her, bullied her, forced her to trust him.
to give somebody the wrong idea or impression and make them believe something that is not true synonym deceive. mislead (somebody) (about something) He deliberately misled us about the nature of their relationship. Statistics taken on their own are liable to mislead.
Define misled. misled synonyms, misled pronunciation, misled translation, English dictionary definition of misled. v. Past tense and past participle of mislead. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
The earliest known use of the adjective misled is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for misled is from before 1400, in Cursor Mundi: a Northumbrian poem of the 14th century. misled is formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: English misled, mislead v. See etymology.
A complete guide to the word "MISLED": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
If you say that someone has misled you, you mean that they have made you believe something which is not true, either by telling you a lie or by giving you a wrong idea or impression. Jack was furious with his London doctors for having misled him.
