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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mislead \Mis*lead"\ (m[i^]s*l[=e]d"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Misled} (m[i^]s*l[e^]d"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Misleading}.]
     [AS. misl[=ae]dan. See {Mis-}, and {Lead} to conduct.]
     To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide
     into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
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           Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you.
                                                    --Bacon.
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           To give due light
           To the mislead and lonely traveler.      --Milton.
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     Syn: To delude; deceive. See {Deceive}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Misleading \Mis*lead"ing\, a.
     Leading astray; delusive.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  misleading
       adj : tending to deceive or mislead either deliberately or
             inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the
             storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a
             misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in
             ways that are misleading" [syn: {deceptive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  85 Moby Thesaurus words for "misleading":
     Barmecidal, Barmecide, airy, apparent, apparitional, autistic,
     beguiling, bewildering, bum steer, catchy, chimeric,
     college of Laputa, conflict, confounding, corruption, deceitful,
     deceiving, deceptive, deluding, delusional, delusionary, delusive,
     delusory, dereistic, disaccord, discord, distracting, dreamlike,
     dreamy, dubious, erroneous, fallacious, false, fantastic, fishy,
     hallucinatory, illusional, illusionary, illusive, illusory,
     imaginary, inaccurate, jangle, jar, misdirecting, misdirection,
     miseducative, misguidance, misguiding, misinformation,
     misinforming, misinstruction, misinstructive, misknowledge,
     mismatch, misteaching, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism,
     obscuration, ostensible, perplexing, perversion, phantasmagoric,
     phantasmal, phantom, puzzling, questionable, seeming,
     self-deceptive, self-deluding, sophistical, sophistry, specious,
     spectral, supposititious, trickish, tricksy, tricky, unactual,
     unfounded, unreal, unsubstantial, visionary, wrong
  
  

















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