mislead Definition

mislead
verb

1. To make someone take a wrong or undesirable course of action.
2. To cause someone to have a false impression or belief.

Thesaurus: deceive, delude, fool, dupe, lead astray, trick, gull, bamboozle, put on (slang), snow (US slang), pull the wool over someone's eyes, take in.

Derivative: misleading
adj

Likely to mislead; deceptive.
Thesaurus: disingenuous, confusing, evasive, ambiguous, specious, perplexing; Antonym: plain, unequivocal.

Derivative: misleadingly
adverb