misleader

Example Sentences

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Now the opportunist wheedles, now the demagogue roars; now a responsible leader advises, now a deft misleader distorts.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he has been the guiltiest misleader in ecclesiastical questions, his retirement is appropriate at the moment when we are trying to get the ear of the Pope.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

Whether he be a misleader of the people is a matter of opinion.

From The Life of Froude by Paul, Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield)

It amounts to offering 658 prizes for the most successful flatterer, the most adroit misleader of a body of his fellow-countrymen.

From Considerations on Representative Government by Mill, John Stuart

What strange imperfect beings!—but self here, which is at the bottom of all we do, and of all we wish, is the grand misleader.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Richardson, Samuel