What's the difference between bullshit and mislead?

Bullshit


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All the others, all that bullshit, they just want to pull me down from the top but I will not go.
  • (2) It’s bullshit, I was on official visits, working at the US embassy.
  • (3) "We don't really want the bullshit and optimistic stuff that Michael has written ..." • Phil Jones, UAE, to Jonathan Overpeck, Arizona University, 8 February 2008 (email 3062) Jones is referring to new research by Michael Schultz of the University of Bremen – not, as many at first assumed, Michael Mann.
  • (4) We can’t just sit back, fold our arms and allow this bullshit to continue going on.” Nigerian historian Max Siollun believes the Biafra civil war, which left more than 1 million dead but did not directly affect some parts of the country, fostered a reluctance to document conflict.
  • (5) It doesn’t matter that he thinks he is.” ‘His populism is bullshit’ In a political landscape often shaped by the tweets of a twitchy-fingered president, the Democrats must find a message that resonates.
  • (6) According to the New York Times , he told its reporter Emily Steel that if he did not approve of her resulting article “I’m coming after you with everything I have,” adding: “You can take it as a threat.” The 65-year-old anchor – who earlier dismissed the Mother Jones article as “total bullshit”, “disgusting”, “defamation” and “a piece of garbage” – had promised that the archive tapes would comprehensively disprove the charges against him.
  • (7) As for the argument that they're being removed to protect them, that's just bullshit."
  • (8) That bullshit jury was fixed,” read the placard of a young man in a hoodie, bandana and gloves on the now-frigid streets of a town where clashes with police raged this August.
  • (9) It knows bullshit when it sees it, soon tires of the same old same old and hungers for something new all the time.
  • (10) It doesn’t just expose the unresolved issues from Ferguson or Staten Island from last year; it exposes the bullshit of how black people are still fighting for issues as basic as the right to vote .
  • (11) This discount factor is probably more resonant with progressive voters than conservative voters – but bear in mind the budget period has been incredibly damaging for Abbott in what I’ll crudely term the “I call bullshit” frame.
  • (12) That is the happeningthing, not whatever bullshit the papers tell us.
  • (13) The creepiest feature is a daily birthday cartoon starring some kiddywink from the viewing audience: parents upload a photo of their baby, whose head then appears on an animated body, taking part in some bullshit adventure about a missing cake.
  • (14) Sometimes its initiatives look to me like self-serving bullshit.
  • (15) Enough with bullshit like McDonald’s slapping MLK’s face on their predatory and poverty creating labor practices.
  • (16) But Facebook players don't put up with that bullshit."
  • (17) "This 10% figure is bullshit," said one camper, who did not wish to be named but said he was from Birmingham.
  • (18) There is a case to be made against Trump that his populism is bullshit,” Favreau said, citing the nomination of billionaires and former Goldman Sachs executives to cabinet positions, which will be the wealthiest in US history, and moves to unravel the Dodd-Frank reform in a boon to Wall Street.
  • (19) I am happy to ramble on about the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle, but veggie dogs are some real bullshit “But Madeleine,” you say, “hot dogs are disgusting!
  • (20) December 16, 2014 Moral of the story: If it looks like bullshit, it probably is.

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.