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

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

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

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