as in deceived
to cause to believe what is untrue
the coral snake's attractive colors can mislead you into thinking that it is harmless
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Recent Examples of misled
Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 21 Sep. 2025
The litigation alleges that corporations misled the public for decades about the dangers of burning fossil fuels, the primary cause of climate change.
—Michael Copley, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
The dispute was now out in the open, and the Truman White House was shown to have misled the public.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
There's also a common but misguided belief that non-quants are incapable of truly understanding quantitative reports of predictive performance and would only be misled by reports meant to speak in their straightforward business language.
—Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Clem said residents have been misled since the development first began taking shape.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
Well, they haven't been misled.
—ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025
But don’t be misled into thinking Burnham’s been typecast his whole career long.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Even then, some parents said they felt misled about how seriously the district treated the allegations.
—Hannah Dreyfus, AZCentral.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, argued that Kimmel misled viewers about Robinson's politics.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 21 Sep. 2025
The litigation alleges that corporations misled the public for decades about the dangers of burning fossil fuels, the primary cause of climate change.
—Michael Copley, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
The dispute was now out in the open, and the Truman White House was shown to have misled the public.
—John Cassidy, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
There's also a common but misguided belief that non-quants are incapable of truly understanding quantitative reports of predictive performance and would only be misled by reports meant to speak in their straightforward business language.
—Eric Siegel, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Clem said residents have been misled since the development first began taking shape.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
Well, they haven't been misled.
—ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025
But don’t be misled into thinking Burnham’s been typecast his whole career long.
—David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Even then, some parents said they felt misled about how seriously the district treated the allegations.
—Hannah Dreyfus, AZCentral.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misled
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Soto and her twins say both families were deceived – their family in Chile and their adoptive parents in Italy who didn’t know the girls had been taken away from their biological mother without her consent.—
Rafael Romo,
CNN Money,
16 Sep. 2025
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The band’s attorneys said that consumers could be easily deceived by the products allegedly sold on the marketplace, which could, in turn, cause reputational damage for Twenty One Pilots and its legitimate products.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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When my first biopsy came back as noncancerous, everyone was confused.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
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One of the abstentions on the VFC coverage vote was Meissner, who didn't want to strip the recommendation or the VFC coverage but was entirely confused by how this would work in practice.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
18 Sep. 2025
Verb
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An Arizona inmate tricked court officials into releasing him more than two decades early by filing fake orders allegedly dismissing his charges.—
Suzanne Nuyen,
NPR,
10 Sep. 2025
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Many of the women who spoke Monday addressed that claim directly, saying they were tricked and coerced from the start and that the deceit went far beyond one lie about where the video would be distributed.—
Alex Riggins,
Mercury News,
9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Any thought of him being an impact middle-of-the-order bat looks, at best, misguided.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
21 Sep. 2025
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Turns out, the trend also reveals something deeper about the misguided strategies men, and all people, use to attract partners.—
Charles Trepany,
USA Today,
17 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Hurricanes explained by Ginger Zee Don't be fooled by the lack of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Basin.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
10 Sep. 2025
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After driving his team to the 1-yard line, Fields fooled the entire Steelers defense on a fourth down, faking a handoff and then high-stepping into the end zone untouched to take a 32-31 lead.—
Mike DeFabo,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Approach them with curiosity about why good people might see things differently, rather than with certainty that anyone who disagrees must be misinformed or malicious.—
Margie Warrell,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Lapado has a history of controversial and sometimes misinformed views, especially around COVID-19 vaccines and preventative policies.—
Simon Williams,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Further ahead, there could be something special coming when Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6), once mistaken for an asteroid, is forecast to brighten in mid-October.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Misdiagnosis was common, with over half of SCAD cases being mistaken for other types of heart attack at first.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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How does peer review work, and what is its purpose if not to prevent incorrect claims from getting published to the greater world?—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
19 Sep. 2025
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In others, its claims were factually incorrect because of inconsistent timelines and mischaracterizations of his work history.—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Misled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misled. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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