Mislead
[mɪs'liːd] or ['mɪs'lid]
Definition
(verb.) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions; 'The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See LEAD]
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Definition
v.t. to guide into error: to cause to mistake:—pa.p. misled′.—n. Mislead′er.—adj. Mislead′ing deceptive.—adv. Mislead′ingly.
Typist: Lucas
Examples
- It would be worth no man's while to mislead me; it would really be too easy--too poor a success, to yield any satisfaction. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The comparison of the theatre must not mislead us. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Her quiet lucidity startled him, but did not mislead him into thinking her insensible. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Don't let your mind so mislead your ears, Christian; and be a man, said Timothy reproachfully. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- How little I knew then of the windings of the labyrinths which were still to mislead me! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Ignorance and misinformation must always, more or less, mislead the most upright council. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Not only ignorance and misinformation, but friendship, party animosity, and private resentment, are said frequently to mislead such assessors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Considering the risk that person ran, it's likely enough that Mr. Luker purposely misled you, by previous arrangement between them. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But the example of Sparta, and perhaps in some degree the tendency to defy public opinion, seems to have misled him. Plato. The Republic.
- His manners, however, must have been unmarked, wavering, dubious, or she could not have been so misled. Jane Austen. Emma.
- In their observations upon the prices of corn, three different circumstances seem frequently to have misled them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The circumstances have misled you. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I dare not ask you to do what I think right, for I may still be misled by passion. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- If she has fancied otherwise, her own wishes have misled her, and I am very sorryextremely sorryBut, Miss Smith, indeed! Jane Austen. Emma.
- Hence it was necessary to maintain a constant vigilance to defeat the insidious attacks of carping critics and others who would attempt to injure the Edison system by misleading statements. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Their conductor pursued an opposite road from that which Wamba had recommended, for the purpose of misleading them. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It will be found that few, if any, misleading directions have been given. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- This arrangement tends to obviate any misleading deflections that might arise through changes in the battery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It may easily be believed that the term subdivision was a misleading one to these early experimenters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- These modern phrases are very misleading unless they are carefully qualified. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In his later years he desired that the misleading anecdote should be suppressed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The darkness misleads you, I said. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Typist: Willie