Meaning & use

Misled

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Caused someone to have a false or mistaken belief, typically by giving misleading information.

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The advertisement misled customers about the product's true ingredients.

He felt misled after discovering the contract's hidden fees.

A note on using this word

Past tense of "mislead"; a common spelling error is writing it as "mislead" instead of "misled."

Words with a similar meaning

deceiveddeludedduped

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Words with an opposite meaning

informed

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