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misled

[mis-leed]

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verb (used with object)

to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.

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

verb (used without object)

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

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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

Related forms

mis·lead·er, noun

un·mis·led, adjective

Synonyms
1. misguide, misdirect. 2. delude, deceive.

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Example Sentences

Sessoms had misled them when he denied a report by a lawyers' group that he had used expletives.

The two students described being misled about their programs' accreditation status and their job.

Jurors were directed to find that the billionaire investor was deliberately misled about the financial position of.

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Sessoms had misled them when he denied a report by a lawyers' group that he had used expletives.

The two students described being misled about their programs' accreditation status and their job.

Jurors were directed to find that the billionaire investor was deliberately misled about the financial position of.

New evidence, however, indicates that scientists were misled by the fossils.

But the researchers misled them about when they were getting the.

It is much more difficult to change the public's mind when they have been misled for so many years.

We are misled by numbers and by our misunderstanding of probability.

They have been trying to undo that settlement since, saying they were misled on the value of the deal.

The sports audience is complicit in its own deception, downright eager to be thus misled.

Tocqueville's arias to excellence and warnings about mediocrity have misled people into thinking him a snob.

Or they have been grossly misinformed or misled by othersand persist in destructive agricultural practices.

Some even sued, claiming the company's executives misled investors about how badly it was stumbling.

Children were stolen or were misled with promises to visit the house kept by the gang on the outskirts of the town.

In this case, it also harmed an individual who was unjustly misled as to her future, and seriously inconvenienced.

They will not be misled for long when the printing presses fire up for real.

Fourth, it's time to step up the response to the climate skeptics, who have misled the public.

And yet, this useful cellular mechanism is cruelly misled by games of chance.

The two states contend the bank misled customers about their eligibility for modifications on their home mortgages.

Apparently you are among those people who want to be misled.

Ticket-buyers sulked and claimed that they were misled.

Leu and his fellow researchers to see if students would be misled into believing in this mythical creature.

Sometimes we're misled in our word use by confusion with similar words or by inattention to nuance.

What's sad is that people who want the right thing to happen allow themselves to be misled by transparent words.

But it is clear that it misled them about a crucial aspect of the fund's investments.

The public is easily misled and to be overly confident of what it is told.

In fact, a new study reports, doctors could be misled into concluding that a patient's risk is lower than it really is.

People are misled by many groups and thus rather stay poor than let industry help their future development.

How absolutely shameful that children can be so misled.

The problem lies in that people are misled into false religions.

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Word Origin & History

mislead

O.E. mislædan, common Gmc. compound (cf. M.L.G., M.Du. misleiden, O.H.G. misseleiten, Ger. missleiten, Dan. mislede); see mis- (1) + lead (v.). Related: misleading; misled.

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"Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- lived or local, but abode by real and abiding traits."

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