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单词 mislead
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Definition of mislead in English:

mislead

verbmisled mɪsˈliːdmɪsˈlid
[with object]
  • Cause (someone) to have a wrong idea or impression.

    the government misled the public about the road's environmental impact
    Example sentencesExamples
    • What that tells me is that right now, whatever is being reported could be information to deceive and mislead people.
    • This fallacy misleads people, and morally, I feel we shouldn't use this method in an argument, because it isn't justified to take advantage of someone.
    • We learnt to be careful about our preconceived ideas misleading us, not making us critical enough.
    • In other words, he is innocent of intentionally misinforming or misleading the audience.
    • I used to lie and I still lie really, not to mislead anybody but to entertain people.
    • The unspoken truth is that either as a people we were misled, or we were lied to, about the real reason for this war.
    • One lesson he had learned from arguing against idealism is that the surface grammar of language can mislead us about the meaning of what we say.
    • To the extent that you reduce fear, you reduce the emotional need among your people to mislead you.
    • That's wrong, most of all because it misleads people about their real options.
    • And he should stop misleading the American people with phony, inflated numbers.
    • So it's really unfortunate when the Vice President plays politics like this and once again demonizes his opponents and misleads the American people.
    • Now that the story turns out to be a fake, do you go public with the names of the sources who misled you?
    • One is that you are misleading the person who receives it, since you are representing it as a genuine bill.
    • I agree with them that the evidence does not support the idea that they deliberately misled anyone.
    • They even publicly show false numbers to mislead readers and advertisers.
    • One person deliberately, by choice, misleads another person without any notification that deception will occur.
    • I'm worried that the strange lyrics paint a wrong picture of what life is and mislead young people.
    • All this only scratches the surface of the ways schools use statistics to mislead parents and the public.
    • Now if in fact it's not all new money, well, he's misled the Australian public.
    • Public education and the media mislead us into thinking America is a just and fair country.
    Synonyms
    deceive, delude, take in, lie to, fool, hoodwink, lead astray, throw off the scent, send on a wild goose chase, put on the wrong track, pull the wool over someone's eyes, pull someone's leg, misguide, misdirect, misinform, give wrong information to
    informal bamboozle, lead up the garden path, take for a ride
    North American informal give someone a bum steer

Derivatives

  • misleader

  • noun
    • We will not be diverted from this task by allegations that criticism of the present misleaders of the working class plays into the hands of the class enemy.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • You say because he did not pursue his duty he should share responsibility with the misleader.
      • Do you really want to continue with a misleader?
      • This requires a political struggle not only against Labour, which openly represents the class enemy, but also against the bureaucratic misleaders of the trade unions who act as the government's fifth column.
      • Isolation could not be overcome by clever tactical adaptation to supposed political reality, but only through the protracted and at times painful struggle to cut a path to the working class through a struggle against its misleaders.

Rhymes

accede, bead, Bede, bleed, breed, cede, concede, creed, deed, Eid, exceed, feed, Gide, God speed, greed, he'd, heed, impede, interbreed, intercede, Jamshid, knead, lead, mead, Mede, meed, misdeed, misread, need, plead, proceed, read, rede, reed, Reid, retrocede, screed, secede, seed, she'd, speed, stampede, steed, succeed, supersede, Swede, tweed, weak-kneed, we'd, weed
 
 

Definition of mislead in US English:

mislead

verbmɪsˈlidmisˈlēd
[with object]
  • Cause (someone) to have a wrong idea or impression about someone or something.

    the government misled the public about the road's environmental impact
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The unspoken truth is that either as a people we were misled, or we were lied to, about the real reason for this war.
    • To the extent that you reduce fear, you reduce the emotional need among your people to mislead you.
    • In other words, he is innocent of intentionally misinforming or misleading the audience.
    • Public education and the media mislead us into thinking America is a just and fair country.
    • I'm worried that the strange lyrics paint a wrong picture of what life is and mislead young people.
    • One person deliberately, by choice, misleads another person without any notification that deception will occur.
    • All this only scratches the surface of the ways schools use statistics to mislead parents and the public.
    • This fallacy misleads people, and morally, I feel we shouldn't use this method in an argument, because it isn't justified to take advantage of someone.
    • And he should stop misleading the American people with phony, inflated numbers.
    • I used to lie and I still lie really, not to mislead anybody but to entertain people.
    • What that tells me is that right now, whatever is being reported could be information to deceive and mislead people.
    • That's wrong, most of all because it misleads people about their real options.
    • One is that you are misleading the person who receives it, since you are representing it as a genuine bill.
    • So it's really unfortunate when the Vice President plays politics like this and once again demonizes his opponents and misleads the American people.
    • They even publicly show false numbers to mislead readers and advertisers.
    • We learnt to be careful about our preconceived ideas misleading us, not making us critical enough.
    • One lesson he had learned from arguing against idealism is that the surface grammar of language can mislead us about the meaning of what we say.
    • Now if in fact it's not all new money, well, he's misled the Australian public.
    • I agree with them that the evidence does not support the idea that they deliberately misled anyone.
    • Now that the story turns out to be a fake, do you go public with the names of the sources who misled you?
    Synonyms
    deceive, delude, take in, lie to, fool, hoodwink, lead astray, throw off the scent, send on a wild goose chase, put on the wrong track, pull the wool over someone's eyes, pull someone's leg, misguide, misdirect, misinform, give wrong information to
 
 
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