mislead
/mɪsˈliːd
/verb (past and past participle misled /mɪsˈlɛd/) [with object]
Cause (someone) to have a wrong idea or impression: the government misled the public about the road’s environmental impact...
- I agree with them that the evidence does not support the idea that they deliberately misled anyone.
- We learnt to be careful about our preconceived ideas misleading us, not making us critical enough.
- Now if in fact it's not all new money, well, he's misled the Australian public.
Synonyms
deceive, delude, take in, lie to, fool, hoodwink, lead astray, throw off the scent, send on a wild goose chase, put on the wrong track, pull the wool over someone's eyes, pull someone's leg, misguide, misdirect, misinform, give wrong information to
informal bamboozle, lead up the garden path, take for a ride
North American informal give someone a bum steer
Derivatives
misleader
- Do you really want to continue with a misleader?
- Isolation could not be overcome by clever tactical adaptation to supposed political reality, but only through the protracted and at times painful struggle to cut a path to the working class through a struggle against its misleaders.
- This requires a political struggle not only against Labour, which openly represents the class enemy, but also against the bureaucratic misleaders of the trade unions who act as the government's fifth column.
Rhymes
- privity of contract
- privy
- privy chamber
- privy coat
- Privy Council
- privy councillor
- privy councillorship
- Privy Councilship
- privy counsellor
- privy counsellorship
- privy house
- privy member
- privy parts
- privy place
- privy purse
- privy seal
- privy stool
- privy tithe
- privy verdict
- Prix de Rome
- prix fixe
- Prix Goncourt
- prizable
- prize
- prizeable