1. (

• mislead ,
• misdirect ,
• misguide ,
• lead_astray

) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions; "The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver" ;

2. (

• misinform ,
• mislead

) give false or misleading information to ;

1. (

• deceptive ,
• misleading

) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently; "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"; "deliberately deceptive packaging"; "a misleading similarity"; "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading" ;