mislead
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misleading
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bamboozle, beguile, bluff, buffalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gaff, gammon, gull, have, have on [chiefly British], hoax, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, juggle, misguide, misinform, snooker, snow, spoof, string along, suck in, sucker, take in, trick
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Within a month, the Animal Legal Defense Fund plans to amend its lawsuit to ask for $200 in compensation for every Oregonian who has allegedly been misled by Tillamook's marketing campaign, said Amanda Howell, staff attorney for the fund. — oregonlive.com, "Tillamook cheese comes mostly from cows kept in concrete and dirt feedlots, not green pastures, lawsuit says," 20 Aug. 2019 The bank has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and claimed that it was misled by rogue employees who intentionally deceived its legal and compliance teams. — Jill Disis, CNN, "Goldman Sachs' top international banker among 17 charged over 1MDB scandal," 9 Aug. 2019 Reviewers and professionals often cited oversimplifications and said readers might be misled. — Robert D. Mcfadden, New York Times, "Martin Mayer, Prolific and Protean Author and Critic, Dies at 91," 1 Aug. 2019 The defense also pointed out that not a single state witness testified that they were misled by Johnson & Johnson or any of its subsidiaries, claiming that Oklahoma failed to prove the company caused the crisis. — NBC News, "Oklahoma's multibillion-dollar case against Johnson & Johnson rests in hands of judge," 15 July 2019 The Justice Department previously has said Deutsche Bank was misled by 1MDB officers. — Jenny Strasburg, WSJ, "Trump Calls Deutsche Bank ‘Maligned’," 11 July 2019 Bearden claims he was also misled about the sale of the home. — Tim Evans, Indianapolis Star, "The 'Flipping Exes' baggage Bravo's not talking about: Bankruptcy, lawsuits, late taxes," 8 July 2019 Dallas billionaire Tom Dundon said in a court filing Monday that he was misled by the now-defunct Alliance of American Football and should get his $70 million investment back. — Melissa Repko, Dallas News, "Dallas billionaire wants a $70 million refund for investment in failed Alliance of American Football," 25 June 2019 Durant is frustrated with the Warriors’ training team over his Achilles injury, wondering if he was misled about the calf injury that came before, according to Bleacher Report’s Ric Bucher. — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, "Kevin Durant free agency tracker: Nets, Warriors, Knicks in mix," 24 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'mislead.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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