mislead
verb (used with object)
to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
had been misleading
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past perfect progressiveof mislead.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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She insisted that accounts of the incident had been misleading and suggested the decision to explode the fireworks was not rushed and that officers had spent many hours formulating a plan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
The independent adviser Laurie Magnus found that Zahawi had been misleading when he said that reports last July over his tax affairs were "clearly smears".
From Reuters ● Jan. 29, 2023
Just when the situation seemed like it couldn’t get much worse for Cruz — his statement about coming back Thursday, after all, had been misleading at best — a cute pooch entered the narrative.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2021
More recently a group headed to Washington, D.C., only to learn that the character Eugene had been misleading them about the answers that might be found there.
From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2015
One of the Hopi finally discovered that the supposed Calako carried a cedar bough in his hand, when it should have been willow; then they knew that it was Masauwûh who had been misleading them.
From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes
