misleader

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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 a misleader of youth he conspires with the writers of dime-novels to fix the imagination on false symbols.

From The Moral Economy by Perry, Ralph Barton

And, having neglected to do this, he ought not to have lectured him as his misleader.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil

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

The misleader of these writers seems to have been Villers, in his Prize Essay on the Reformation, or his annotator, Mills, p.

From Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George