Definition of Misleads

1. Verb. (third-person singular of mislead) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Misleads

1. mislead [v] - See also: mislead

Lexicographical Neighbors of Misleads

mislaid properties
mislaid property
mislain
mislay
mislayer
mislayers
mislaying
mislays
misle
mislead
misleader
misleaders
misleading
misleadingly
misleadingness
misleads (current term)
misleared
mislearn
mislearned
mislearning
mislearns
mislearnt
misled
misleeke
misleeked
misleekes
mislen
misletoe
misletoes
mislie

Literary usage of Misleads

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Three Departments of the Intellect by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1869)
"Association sometimes misleads our judgments. IT seems to be important, ... There are some cases where the powrer of association so misleads us that we ..."

2. Arctic Experiences: Containing Capt. George E. Tyson's Wonderful Drift on by Euphemia Vale Blake (1874)
"Inexperience of the Men misleads their Judgment. "!T is as well to look the future fairly in the face, and none of us can tell who will survive to see this ..."

3. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Two Departments of the by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1857)
"Association sometimes misleads our judgments. IT seems to be important, ... There are some cases where the power of association so misleads us that we ..."

4. Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory: Or, Education of an Orator. In Twelve Books by Quintilian (1892)
"Not pernicious because it sometimes misleads, 27—29. Another objection, that it may be exerted on either side of a question, and that it contradicts itself; ..."

5. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1889)
"... etc., the limits assigned to this new era are clearly demonstrated; but the current of mediocrity overwhelms all, misleads the less rigid, ..."

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