(adv. & a.) Out of the right, either in a literal or in a figurative sense; wandering; as, to lead one astray.
Example Sentences:
(1) The single-celled organism has four "watermarks" written into its DNA to identify it as synthetic and help trace its descendants back to their creator, should they go astray.
(2) The willingness to ignore their misconduct has led us all astray and increased the public's lack of trust in all journalism.
(3) In an article for the New York Times in 2009, Krugman wrote : "As I see it, the economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth."
(4) It didn't lure me astray – I'm done with my youthful experimenting – but it did occur to me that it was not all that helpful to parents trying to warn their kids not to try skunk when they could sample it just by breathing the air.
(5) The Gijon goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar was on fine form, particularly against Ronaldo, while Real’s approach play looked lethargic and too many passes went astray.
(6) "Market share" and other phrases can lead you astray.
(7) He helped us by looking into some money for the area that had gone astray.
(8) "Isn't it true he has been led astray by the Tories?
(9) This is stuff [Isis] already has.” The Pentagon cleared up some confusion about a cache going astray on Sunday that had subsequently been destroyed in a US strike, once it had been realised it was in danger of falling into Isis hands.
(10) Based on a review of the literature it can be said that a main obstacle to a rational approach to prevention and health promotion in the elderly, seems to be on the one side our lack of knowledge of what constitutes effective intervention, and on the other a feeling of great urgency--which may easily lead us astray.
(11) But if it was not a giant mental disorder, was there a huge conspiracy that led Tamerlan and Jahar astray?
(12) They’re not brainwashed by American R&B or led astray by song lyrics.
(13) Clegg came under attack from Harriet Harman yesterday when he stood in for David Cameron at prime minister's questions while students marched on Whitehall to be told that he had been "led astray" by the Tories during the negotiations to form the coalition government.
(14) Memory can lead us astray, but then it is a machine with many moving parts, and consequently many things that can go awry.
(15) It may have been built on debt and a financial sector going quietly astray, but they enjoyed 40 successive quarters of economic growth.
(16) In this paper, will be described how some of the most important advances were made, and where the explorers sometimes went astray.
(17) Sally did not see a bank statement from Nationwide for the entire period the money was going astray.
(18) Amid all the uncertainty, experts argue that if a warhead had gone astray in that critical period in the early 90s, it would probably have been detonated by now.
(19) That she has been led astray and manipulated by the abuser.
(20) 'They're scared to write much, in case the letter goes astray.
Mislead
Definition:
(v. t.) To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(2) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(3) The use of 100% oxygen to calculate intrapulmonary shunting in patients on PEEP is misleading in both physiological and methodological terms.
(4) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(5) The derived data lacks specificity, however, and, as such, is frequently misleading.
(6) Families believed that physicians would not listen (13% of sample), would not talk openly (32%), attempted to mislead them (48%), or did not warn about long-term neurodevelopmental problems (70%).
(7) Serological findings in five cases where Paul-Bunnel Davidsohn (PBD) test results were misleading, are presented.
(8) Second, the commonly drawn analogy between blocking in randomized trials and matching in cohort studies is misleading when one considers the impact of matching on covariate distributions.
(9) In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and that a misguided strategy could damage rather than help Israel's victims.
(10) At the end of the article the Department for Work and Pensions is quoted as saying that it’s “misleading to link food bank use to benefit delays and sanctions”.
(11) The authors argue that these "principles" do not function as claimed, and that their use is misleading both practically and theoretically.
(12) They claim that Zero Dark Thirty is "grossly inaccurate and misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the capture".
(13) The European court of human rights has accused British newspapers, including the Daily Mail, of publishing "seriously misleading" reports.
(14) This report indicates that hepatic copper levels vary greatly in acute liver failure, and that estimates from a single biopsy specimen may be misleading as to the cause of the underlying liver disease.
(15) Maybe the claimants were politicians who took a strict stance on moral issues, or people who had misleadingly used their family image to seek office or commercial gain?
(16) However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.
(17) Again, the government is deliberately misleading the public by aggregating figures over an area which no one would describe as theirs.
(18) But the Tories edited out a crucial final sentence in which Balls told BBC Radio Leeds on 9 January : “But I think we can be tougher and we should be and we will.” Labour seized on the Tory editing of the Balls interview to accuse the Tories of misleading people to defend their refusal to tackle tax avoidance.
(19) We therefore conclude that the clinical management of bronchiolitis requires close monitoring of body wt and plasma osmolality-urinary osmolality relationship; serum sodium levels may be misleading.
(20) It is not only the misleading newspaper headlines about this U-turn which are causing confusion.