misleadmis‧lead /ˌmɪsˈliːd/ ●●○ verb (past tense and past participle misled /-ˈled/) [transitive] 
Politicians have misled the public over the dangers of these chemicals. Don’t be misled by appearances, he’s a good worker.mislead somebody into believing/thinking etc something Don’t be misled into thinking that scientific research is easy.
VERB TABLE
mislead
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | mislead |
| he, she, it | misleads | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | misled |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have misled |
| he, she, it | has misled | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had misled |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will mislead |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have misled |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am misleading |
| he, she, it | is misleading | |
| you, we, they | are misleading | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was misleading |
| you, we, they | were misleading | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been misleading |
| he, she, it | has been misleading | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been misleading |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be misleading |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been misleading |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- 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.
- 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.
THESAURUS
especially written to make someone who trusts you believe something that is not true: · This was a deliberate attempt to deceive the public.
to make someone believe something that is not true, in order to get something from them or make them do something: · A man posing as an insurance agent had tricked her out of thousands of dollars.
to make someone believe something that is not true by using a clever but simple trick: · His hairpiece doesn’t fool anyone.
to make people believe something that is not true, by deliberately not giving them all the facts, or by saying something that is only partly true: · The company was accused of misleading customers about the nutritional value of the product.
informal to trick or deceive someone, especially so that they become involved in someone else’s dishonest activity without realizing it: · The spies duped government and military officials alike.
informal to trick someone, especially by telling them something that is not true: · I’m pretty good at judging people; I didn’t think he was trying to con me.
to deliberately tell someone something that is not true: · She had lied to protect her son.· Are you accusing me of telling lies?
verb [intransitive] informal to lie, especially about something that is not very important – used especially by children: · Dan’s fibbing. I didn’t hit him.
to invent a story, explanation etc in order to deceive someone: · I didn’t want to go so I made up an excuse and said I was busy.· He invented the tale to prevent his parents from finding out the truth.
verb [transitive] to make someone believe something that is not true by giving them false or incomplete information: · The government misled the public over the war.
to only tell someone part of the truth – often used when saying indirectly that someone is lying: · He admitted that he had perhaps been economical with the truth.
to tell a lie in a court of law: · He had perjured himself in court.· Witnesses will be prosecuted if they commit perjury.
Longman Language Activatorto trick someone and make them believe something that is not true to make someone believe something that is not true, in order to get something from them or make them do something: · I realized then that I had been tricked, but it was too late.· I'm not trying to trick you - just answer the question.trick somebody into doing something: · The old man's sons had tricked him into signing the papers.trick somebody out of something (=take something from someone by tricking them): · A man posing as an insurance agent tricked her out of thousands of dollars.
informal to trick someone: · He was trying to con me, and I knew it.con somebody into doing something: · They conned the school district into buying the property.con somebody out of something (=take something from someone by tricking them): · She conned me out of $50.
especially written to make someone who trusts you believe something that is not true because it is useful for you if they believe it: · This was a deliberate attempt to deceive the public.· Many children's lies are unplanned and not actually designed to deceive.· All through the summer Paula was deceiving her husband while she was seeing another man.deceive somebody into doing something: · Thousands of home buyers were deceived into buying homes at inflated prices.deceive yourself: · If you think that everyone is happy with the plan, you're deceiving yourself.
to make someone believe something that is not true by using a clever but simple trick: · His hairpiece doesn't fool anyone.fool somebody into doing something: · They managed to fool the police into thinking they had left the country.have somebody fooled: · The brothers' act had us all fooled.you can't fool me spoken: · You can't fool me - I know he's already given you the money.fool yourself: · Maybe I was just fooling myself, but I really thought he liked me.
to make people believe something that is not true, by deliberately not giving them all the facts, or by saying something that is only partly true: · The report is a deliberate and obvious attempt to mislead.· They were accused of misleading customers about the nutritional value of their product.mislead somebody into doing something: · Agents are accused of misleading clients into signing up for savings plans that were actually insurance policies.
to trick someone into doing something that they will be punished for or embarrassed by: · He said, following his arrest last fall, that the FBI had set him up.· Terry and Donald think I set them up, but it's all a big misunderstanding.
informal to deceive someone, especially someone who is cleverer than you are, or someone who is not easily deceived: · That's the last time he puts one over on me!· Lawyers claim that the tobacco industry, by failing to tell everything it knew about smoking, was putting one over on its customers.
informal to deceive someone, usually by hiding some facts or information: · Don't try and pull the wool over my eyes - I can tell you've been smoking.· The politicians are just trying to pull the wool over voters' eyes again.
to make someone believe you and trust you, especially by making them think you are romantically interested in them: · I can't tell if he really cares about me or if he's just leading me on?· I didn't mean to lead Cassie on, but I didn't want to hurt her feelings either.
informal to deceive someone, especially so that you can get their money: · I'd already given him £50 when I realized he was taking me for a ride.· After the deal was signed, I felt like I'd been taken for a ride.
to cheat someone you pretended to be helping or working with, especially by helping their enemies: · I'm warning you - if you double-cross me, I'll kill you.· Harry and Danny double-crossed the gang and escaped with all the money.
informal to trick or deceive someone, especially so that they become involved in someone else's dishonest activity without realizing it: · The spies duped government and military officials alike.dupe somebody into doing something: · The perpetrators of the hoax managed to dupe respectable journalists into printing their story.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Don’t be misled into thinking that scientific research is easy.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
to make someone believe something that is not true by giving them information that is false or not completemislead somebody about/over something Don’t be misled into thinking that scientific research is easy.· The advertisement gave a misleading impression of the product.
(=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.
(=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.
(=one that is not true)· She is accused of making false statements to obtain a passport.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· 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· That statement was silent on the question of whether Gingrich deliberately misled the committee or skirted tax law.
· Jones was very subtle about his use of sexuality to mislead his people.· Most leaders understand this; few intentionally mislead people about meaning.
· 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?
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