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
But Mr. Altamura soon discovered that his client had been misleading him about the legalities of donation in Israel.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2014
By withholding what she knew of Hester's parentage, the newspaper accounts of the death of the French woman, had been misleading.
From Hester's Counterpart A Story of Boarding School Life by Adele W. Jones
