Reverse Dictionary: MISLEAD

ADJECTIVES
► DECEPTIOUS that tends to deceive, cheat, or mislead; deceptive, deluding, illusory → 1606 obs.
► FALLACE fallacious; deceitful; deceptive, misleading → 1393 obs.
► FALLACIOUS of things: deceptive, misleading → 1651
► JIVE-ASS deceptive, misleading → 1993 African-American sl.
► MISGUIDED misled, deceived; erring, badly trained → 1823 Sc. 
► ON THE WRONG TRAM misled about a thing; following the wrong course of action → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)

NOUNS
► ABUSEMENT an abusing or misleading → 1819 obs.
► BLA ► BLAH ► BLAH-BLAH pretentious or misleading talk → 1918 sl., orig. US
► BULL’S WOOL misleading information → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► FALLATION a fallacy, a deceptive or misleading argument → a1568 obs.
► FALLIBILITY liability to err or to mislead → 1634
► JIVE-ASS deceptive or misleading talk → 1991 African-American sl.
► LEG PULL an attempt to mislead or deceive others in a playful way or as a joke; a trick or hoax → 1893
► MOODY pretentious or misleading talk → 1934 Brit. sl.  
► MUMBO JUMBO pretentious or misleading talk → 1896 sl.
► SHUCKING AND JIVING a not speaking or behaving seriously in an attempt to mislead → 1966 African-American sl.
► SMOKE-SCREEN something designed to conceal or mislead; a deliberate distraction or diversion → 1926

NOUNS – PERSON
► CORRUPTRESS a woman who corrupts or misleads → 1611
► CORRUPTRICE a woman who corrupts or misleads → 1609 obs.
► CORRUPTRIX a woman who corrupts or misleads → 1611 obs.
► JIVE-ASS a deceptive or misleading person → 1993 African-American sl.
► SHUCK a person who deceives or misleads → 1998 African-American sl.

VERBS
► BEDWELE ► BEDWELEN to mislead, to lead into error → c1205 obs.
► BE ON THE WRONG TRAM to be misled about a thing → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► BLEND to bewilder, to mislead, to confuse → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BLOW UP to mislead, to delude → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BLUFF to confuse, to mislead or deter by a show of confidence or superiority; to fob off → L18
► DRAW A PERSON’S LEG to try to deceive or mislead another person in a playful way or as a joke → 1851 Sc. obs.
► DUST THE EYES OF to confuse, to mislead, to dupe by making ‘blind’; to the actual facts of the case → 1867 sl.
► DUST to confuse, to mislead, to dupe → 1814 sl.
► DWELL to lead into error; to mislead, to delude; to stun, to stupefy → c888 obs.
► FILL ► FILL UP to hoax or mislead → 1880 Amer. sl.
► FORLEAD to seduce, to mislead → c1000 obs.
► GAME to deceive, to mislead, to trick → 1963 US sl.
► GIVE SOMEONE A BENT NAIL to make an unclear, misleading statement → 1955 US sl.
► JACK AROUND to mislead → 1995 US sl. (Bk.)
► JARGOOZLE to mislead; to lead astray; to bamboozle → 1896 sl. (Bk.)
► JIVE to tease, to put someone on; to mislead, to con; to pretend; to lie, to cheat → 1928 Amer. dial.
► JUKE to deceive or mislead → 2009 African-American sl.
► LOAD ► LOAD UP to deceive, to trick, to mislead → 1883 Amer. dial.
► MAKE A COUSIN OF to deceive, to mislead, to dupe → 1600 obs.
► MISGUIDE to mislead, to lead astray → 1787 Sc. & Eng. dial. 
► MISPUT to lose, to mislay, to misplace; to mislead → 1923 Amer. dial.
► RUN A SANDY ON ► RUN A SANDY OVER to trick, to cheat, to dupe; to mislead, to delude → 1914 Amer. dial.
► SANDBAG to feign weakness in order to mislead an opponent → 20C US sl.
► SEND ON A HOMBUG ► SEND ON A HUMBUG to deliberately mislead someone by misdirecting them → 1950s African-American sl.
► SEND ON A MERRY-GO-ROUND to deliberately mislead someone by misdirecting them → 1950s African-American sl.
► SEND ON A TRIP to deliberately mislead someone by misdirecting them → 1950s African-American sl.
► SHIT to tease, attempt to deceive or mislead → 1934 sl.
► SHUCK to cheat, to deceive, to trick, to mislead someone → 1959 Amer. dial.
► SHUCK AND JIVE to deceive, to mislead → 2008 African-American sl.
► SILE to deceive, to beguile or mislead a person → 1508 chiefly Sc. obs.
► THROW DUST IN THE EYES OF to confuse, to mislead, to dupe by making ‘blind’ to the actual facts of the case → 1612
► THROW ONE AN ARRE to misinform, to mislead → 1938 Amer. dial.