Synonyms of misleads

misleads

verb

present tense third-person singular of mislead

as in deceives

to cause to believe what is untrue

the coral snake's attractive colors can mislead you into thinking that it is harmless

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deceives
• fools
• tricks
• misinforms
• deludes
• misguides
• teases
• beguiles
• kids
• hoodwinks
• bamboozles
• sucks in
• dupes
• juggles
• stings
• hoaxes
• suckers
• has on
• humbugs
• catches
• spoofs
• bluffs
• cheats
• burns
• strings along
• cons
• does a number on
• has
• fakes out
• gulls
• cozens
• takes in
• snows
• gaffs
• buffaloes
• gammons
• snookers
• hornswoggles
• leads one down the garden path
• defrauds
• pulls one's leg
• shortchanges
• pulls the wool over one's eyes
• puts on
• swindles
• sticks
• bleeds
• hustles
• diddles
• flimflams
• squeezes
• mulcts
• fleeces
• rooks
• chisels
• skins
• euchres

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• reveals
• exposes
• unmasks
• tells
• uncovers
• debunks
• discloses
• shows up
• divulges
• unveils
• undeceives
• uncloaks
• disabuses
• disillusions
• disenchants

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of misleads

If a deepfake inflicts commercial damage or misleads consumers, businesses can pursue civil claims for defamation or false light, alongside federal trademark suits under the Lanham Act. — Allyson Kapin, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

Taking a massive bite outta Meta’s bottom line, state attorneys general like California’s Rob Bonta (hello David Ellison, see you soon) and his colleagues in Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey allege the Zuckerberg outfit actively misleads consumers. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 8 July 2026

These are attacks in which a bad actor misleads an AI model by injecting malicious instructions into a conversation, such as a PDF or website code designed to extract valuable company data. — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 6 June 2026

Trademark law asks whether the use misleads consumers about whether a company or person has produced or endorsed something. — Daryl Lim, Fortune, 30 May 2026

Because journalism is a nonfiction medium and not an art form, photojournalists must avoid any manipulation of the image or the scene being captured or any postproduction alteration that misleads the public about the reality of the situation. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026

Winston Churchill’s memoirs smoothed these memories over, and this still misleads us. — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026

This deceptive categorization is devoid of reality and misleads the American public. — CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026

Currah misleads readers regarding the positions held by the authors. — Paisley Currah, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2025