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

O fatal name, misleader of mankind,      Phantom, too radiant and too much adored!

From Life in Mexico by Calderón de la Barca, Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis)

But without satisfaction from the Spaniard, the contriver of the mischief and the misleader of the Knight, his backbone, Schoppe said, would never run perpendicular again, and his spinal marrow would remain bent.

From Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) by Jean Paul

P: And he whom Allah guideth, for him there can be no misleader.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

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