misled

[mis-led]

adjective

1. wrongly led, guided, or informed.

   He's not a bad writer, just terribly misled about his strengths.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of mislead.

Word History and Origins

Origin of misled¹

First recorded before 1000

Example Sentences

“We’ve been misled about how much willpower and conscious control we really have over our long-term food intake,” they write.

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They say he misled the Senate by saying he had not authorised someone at the FBI to leak to news outlets information about the FBI investigations.

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Ruling on the case, Mr Justice Andrew Baker said the Danish tax authority had not been misled into making the payments.

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The suit referenced a recent Fox News report cited by the president that misled viewers by wrongly presenting “outdated protest footage from 2020.”

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The Conservative chairman suggested the correspondence could be seen as evidence the Electoral Commission had been "knowingly misled".

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Related Words

• misinformed www.thesaurus.com
• mistaken 
• wronged