Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To lead in the wrong direction.
- transitive verb To give a wrong impression or lead toward a wrong conclusion, especially by intentionally deceiving. synonym: deceive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To lead or guide wrongly; lead astray; especially, to draw into error: cause to err; delude: as, to
mislead an inquirer. - To misconduct; misbehave: used reflexively.
- Synonyms Mislead, Delude. Mislead means to lead wrong, whether with or without design. Delude always, at least figuratively, implies intention to deceive, and that means are used for that purpose. We may be misled through ignorance and in good faith, but we are deluded by false representations. A person may delude himself.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb literally To lead
astray , in afalse direction . - verb To
deceive by tellinglies or otherwise giving a falseimpression . - verb To
deceptively trick into something wrong. - verb To accidentally or intentionally
confuse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give false or misleading information to
- verb lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions
Etymologies
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Examples
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Don't let the title mislead you: Kevin will be working on all types of business development, including mobile.
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Don't let the title mislead you: Kevin will be working on all types of business development, including mobile.
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Don't let the title mislead you: Kevin will be working on all types of business development, including mobile.
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Or, perhaps it is more of the Repubican efforts to once again mislead Americans about our foreign policy and how it should be conducted.
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Once we get by the frightening 'tax hike' deceptive title mislead, the article is pretty informative.
Obama/Buffett Plan to Make Rich Pay SS Tax Like Everyone Else is NOT a 'Tax Hike'
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Don't let this blog title mislead you: Badarchaeology is good archaeology.
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When anybody uses the word mislead against an MP of whatever kind or party, the speaker or deputy speaker will call upon that member to withdraw.
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When anybody uses the word mislead against an MP of whatever kind or party, the speaker or deputy speaker will call upon that member to withdraw.
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Doesn't the form of our expression mislead us here?
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Let not his name mislead: this pretty fellow, in soft, gray-tinted plumage, is not deformed by "horns;" it is only two little tufts of feathers, which give a certain piquant, wide-awake expression to his head, that have fastened upon him a title so incongruous.
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