mislead
mis·lead (-lēd′)
transitive verb -·led′, -·lead′·ing
- to lead in a wrong direction; lead astray
- to lead into error (of judgment); deceive or delude
- to lead into wrongdoing; influence badly
mislead
v.
Object
- consumer: Sales Director Colin McCann explains: " It's not in our interests to mislead consumers into joining us.
- electorate: They have such a strong sense of their own righteousness that they feel entitled to mislead the electorate.
- parliament: From now on, a prime minister will be able to mislead parliament and the public on the gravest matter and pay no price.
- viewer: The complexity and visually seductive nature of computer graphics makes it easy to mislead viewers that there is rigorous science underlying it all.
- indication: The Consumer Protection Act 1987 makes it an offense for a trader to give a consumer misleading price indications.
- reader: I'm afraid I misled those readers who didn't know any better two weeks ago.
Subject
- feedback: His paper presents evidence to show that there are ways in which learners delude themselves and can be misled by feedback.
- appearance: Do not be misled by the innocuous appearance of this building.
Preposition: through
- advertisement: The settlement follows the agency's lawsuit charging consumers were misled through deceptive cell phone advertisements.
Modifying Another Word
- deliberately: You mustn't deliberately mislead the police, give them false information, waste their time or obstruct them.
- knowingly: They should not deceive or knowingly mislead Parliament or the public.
- intentionally: I had been intentionally mislead in thinking that cotton was a natural and fantastic fabric.
- grossly: Yet enough has come out to satisfy most people that parliament and the public were grossly misled by the government.
- dangerously: They are impossible to attain and therefore dangerously misleading... " [ UNQ 24 ] .
- inadvertently: Observer: But did you inadvertently misled the House on that Monday?
Used with why or when
- when: Formats of the lastModified string The date format in the javascript lastModified string is browser-dependent and can be misleading when read.
Infinitive complement
- suggest: It is misleading to suggest that a new hospital in the City Center is a feasible option.
Preposition: by
- feedback: His paper presents evidence to show that there are ways in which learners delude themselves and can be misled by feedback.
- forum: Many webmasters, including myself, have been mislead by industry forums, and Internet " chatter " .
- appearance: Do not be misled by the innocuous appearance of this building.
Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of vocabularyand syntax to mislead their weak minds.
One to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself.
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