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misled
[mis-led]
adjective
wrongly led, guided, or informed.
He's not a bad writer, just terribly misled about his strengths.
verb
the simple past tense and past participle of mislead.
Word History and Origins
Origin of misled1
Example Sentences
So has the public been misled that all ultra-processed food is bad, and all unprocessed food is good?
She said she didn't outright say she had cancer, but still shouldn't have misled her relatives, saying she'd done so partly because their concern made her feel loved.
Jennifer Church, attorney for the plaintiffs, said that the case “is really about the American public being misled to the detriment of our local farmers.”
Edison International officers and directors misled the company’s investors about the effectiveness of its efforts to reduce the risk of wildfire in the months and years before the devastating Eaton fire, a shareholder lawsuit claims.
The suit claimed Live Nation misled investors when it said it ‘does not engage in behaviors that could justify antitrust litigation.’
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