Deceive is a regular verb. Its present simple, past simple and past participle forms are deceive / deceived / deceived.
To deceive somebody is to cheat them.
- He deceived me by pretending to be a real estate broker.
Mislead
Mislead is an irregular verb. Its past simple and past participle forms are: misled / misled.
Deceive and mislead can both mean to cause someone to believe something that is not true. To deceive is to give a false impression intentionally or knowingly.
- She deceived her husband by dating others.
- The general used a mock attack to deceive the enemy.
- Her haughty manners were meant to deceive us into thinking she was an aristocrat.
To mislead is to give a false impression unintentionally or unknowingly.
- The sunny morning mislead us and we were caught in the afternoon rain.
- The boy’s directions misled us and we never reached the temple.
Deceive and mislead are verbs. Deceptive and misleading are the adjective forms.
- The newspaper won’t accept any deceptive /misleading ads.
