lead sb on
disapproving— phrasal verb with lead uk/liːd/us/liːd/verb led, led uk/led/us
to persuade someone to believe something that is untrue:
All that time she'd been leading him on (= pretending she liked him), but she was only interested in his money.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Cheating & tricking
- a numbers game idiom
- bad faith
- bamboozle
- bilk
- blackmail
- fleece
- gag
- honeyfuggle
- hoodwink
- impersonate
- jape
- jiggery-pokery
- poison
- scam
- scammer
- screw
- sell sb a bill of goods idiom
- send/give out (all) the wrong signals idiom
- shaft
- wool
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