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

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

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

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

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

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