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 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

While a second sort, aiming at wit, that wicked misleader, forfeit all title to judgment.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9 by Richardson, Samuel

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

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

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