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adjective

Definition of mislednext
as in confused

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misled

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verb

past tense of mislead
as in deceived
to cause to believe what is untrue the coral snake's attractive colors can mislead you into thinking that it is harmless

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Recent Examples of misled
Verb
The company misled him about the cost of the loan, which was loaded with junk fees and devoured 60% of his paychecks. — Mike Calhoun, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025 Last week, attorneys for the former five-term Miami-Dade County Commissioner Joe Martinez asked a judge for a new trial, saying defense attorneys and jurors were misled by state prosecutors who argued that Martinez created legislation in order to benefit a constituent. — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misled
  1. confused
  2. deceived
  3. misguided
  4. misinformed
  5. fooled
  6. incorrect
  7. erroneous
Adjective
  • And while my four rides in Waymo's Jaguar i-Pace vehicles around Los Angeles last summer didn't feature any such fits of indecisiveness, the cars have had their own confused moments.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Harris emphasizes nothing has yet changed but customers remain confused as to the status of the incentive and Harbinger’s IRA Risk Free Guarantee was created to mitigate that confusion.
    — Ed Garsten, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Definition of confused
Verb
  • Cleveland also warned that users may fail to consider emoji strings to be actual passwords, and so could be deceived via phishing campaigns to share emoji passwords.
    — Davey Winder, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The states pressing the suits, including California and New Jersey, say the companies deceived consumers about the risks posed by fossil fuels.
    — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025
Definition of deceived
Adjective
  • Your anger is misguided because you’re fixated on the wrong thing, the wrong player, the wrong area.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Based on the eponymous webtoon that Yeon himself created with writer and frequent collaborator Choi Gyu-seok, Revelations is a dark, twisted thriller that illustrates how a person’s strong but misguided convictions can set them down a path of destruction.
    — Regina Kim, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
Definition of misguided
Adjective
  • Every societal ill was the result of an intentional harm, a single malicious or misinformed actor, and every harm could be redressed by the proper application of the law.
    — Sarah Lustbader, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Setting aside the fact that this order may deny care to adults, who are free to make their own health care decisions, this overreaching executive order substitutes the president’s misinformed view for that of every medical association in America.
    — Edwin C. Yohnka, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2025
Definition of misinformed
Verb
  • Heat star Tyler Herro admitted to being fooled earlier this month, while a post from the account instigated a war of words between Kevin Garnett and Draymond Green.
    — Ben Morse, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Also, unlike its many imposters (and there are many similar looking wireless lamps out there, so don’t be fooled), the Poldina comes with a 1-year warranty on the battery and a 2-year warranty for any defects.
    — Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 27 Feb. 2025
Definition of fooled
Adjective
  • With large language models – the underlying technology of AI chatbots – hallucinations are pieces of information that sound convincing but are incorrect, made up or irrelevant.
    — Anna Choi, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Hallucinations, on the other hand, occur when an AI system is asked to provide factual information or perform specific tasks but instead generates incorrect or misleading content while presenting it as accurate.
    — Anna Choi, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of incorrect
Adjective
  • The erroneous alerts, which affected recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) came during a series of website outages tied to internal agency upheaval and untested system changes, according to The Washington Post.
    — Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The erroneous deportation of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was first reported by The Atlantic.
    — Mike Allen, Axios, 2 Apr. 2025
Definition of erroneous

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