misinform

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to say something not true in order to deceive
lieAll she does is lie - you can't believe a word she says.
tell a lieI cannot tell a lie: I chopped down the cherry tree.
lie through your teethHe lied through his teeth that he didn't go to the cinema, though he was still holding the ticket stub in his hand as he said it.
fibI don't like fibbing, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings by saying his gift was awful.
misleadI'm afraid you've been misled. She is, in fact, married.
deludeHe's deluding himself if he thinks that he's getting that promotion.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Lies, lying & hypocrisy
a pack of liesidiom
artifice
bad faith
black is whiteidiom
cakeism
falsehood
falsification
feed someone a lineidiom
fib
fiction
lie
mythologize
perjure
perjury
polygraph
someone can talk!idiom
stretch the truthidiom
weasel words
white lie
whopper

mislead | American Dictionary

mislead
verb[ T ]
us/mɪsˈlid/past tense and past participlemisledus/mɪsˈled/
to cause someone to believe something that is not true:
We’re not misleading people, and we’re not pretending to be something we’re not.

mislead | Business English

mislead
verb[ T ]
uk /mɪsˈliːd/usmisleduk /mɪsˈled/ | misled
to cause someone to believe something that is not true:
The government has repeatedly misled the public, and we're here to protest.
mislead sb about sthThe advertising campaign intentionally misled consumers about whether the product was natural.
mislead sb into doing sthMillions of people were misled into buying these 'low-risk' investments.

Examples of mislead

mislead
But the argument from selective refutation can be misleading when it causes us to fail to notice that the surviving hypothesis has its own defects.
Nevertheless, there was less opportunity for readers to be misled when they were learning about memory than when the topic was mental imagery.
At another level, the omission of fundamental components of the historical narrative can seriously mislead readers.
For one thing, it is misleading to measure leisure simply as time spent outside the labor market.
We are easily misled by the way a decision is framed.
This places a premium on the reliability of information, and maternal genes may benefit from suppressing misleading information transmitted between sibs.
Why distort and indeed mislead public education and discussion by confusing scientific fact and science fiction?
The rather portentous title of this book neatly describes its topics, except that the term ' postmodern ' is likely to mislead.
Their system aims to find slips in typing or performance errors rather than competence errors; like our system, it will be misled by consistent mistakes.
The name is misleading because the control flow could be to the same instance.
And if only there were far fewer who allow themselves to be so easily misled.
The size or position of the proposed building may be inaccurate or the way in which the materials or lighting are configured could be misleading.
But the image of a mass-medium is misleading as mass-media are sources of information that are at least to a certain extent controlled.
On closer inspection, however, this comfortably predictable image turns out to be in important respects misleading.
In any case, all schemata representing concentric circles are misleading (as in discussions of identity).
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