All mislead synonyms

verb mislead

• fool — to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
• lie — Jonas, 1880–1940, U.S. painter, born in Norway.
• misinform — to give false or misleading information to.
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• hoodwink — to deceive or trick.
• dupe — duplicate.
• betray — If you betray someone who loves or trusts you, your actions hurt and disappoint them.
• deceive — If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
• tempt — to entice or allure to do something often regarded as unwise, wrong, or immoral.
• misrepresent — to represent incorrectly, improperly, or falsely.
• fudge — a small stereotype or a few lines of specially prepared type, bearing a newspaper bulletin, for replacing a detachable part of a page plate without the need to replate the entire page.
• defraud — If someone defrauds you, they take something away from you or stop you from getting what belongs to you by means of tricks and lies.
• delude — If you delude yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
• misguide — to guide wrongly; misdirect.
• pervert — to affect with perversion.
• bait — Bait is food which you put on a hook or in a trap in order to catch fish or animals.
• inveigle — to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements (usually followed by into): to inveigle a person into playing bridge.
• hoax — something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax.
• beguile — If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.
• scam — a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
• seduce — to lead astray, as from duty, rectitude, or the like; corrupt.
• bunk — A bunk is a bed that is fixed to a wall, especially in a ship or caravan.
• gull — a person who is easily deceived or cheated; dupe.
• snow — Sir Charles Percy (C. P. Snow) 1905–80, English novelist and scientist.
• outwit — to get the better of by superior ingenuity or cleverness; outsmart: to outwit a dangerous opponent.
• juggle — to keep (several objects, as balls, plates, tenpins, or knives) in continuous motion in the air simultaneously by tossing and catching.
• cozen — to cheat or trick (someone)
• victimize — to make a victim of.
• lure — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
• hose — a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point: a garden hose; a fire hose.
• overreach — to reach or extend over or beyond: The shelf overreached the nook and had to be planed down.
• bluff — A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
• shaft — a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
• rook — one of two pieces of the same color that may be moved any number of unobstructed squares horizontally or vertically; castle.
• bilk — To bilk someone out of something, especially money, means to cheat them out of it.
• trick — a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
• misdirect — to direct or address wrongly or incorrectly: to misdirect a person; to misdirect a letter.
• distort — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
• fabricate — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
• bamboozle — To bamboozle someone means to confuse them greatly and often trick them.
• information — knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news: information concerning a crime.
• entice — Attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage.
• enmesh — Cause to become entangled in something.
• ensnare — Catch in or as in a trap.
• entangle — Cause to become twisted together with or caught in.
• victimise — to make a victim of.
• double-cross — to prove treacherous to; betray or swindle, as by a double cross.
• put on — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• rip off — a rent made by ripping; tear.
• take in — the act of taking.