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

A new reign is always accounted a new starting-point, and in this case the traditional method of dividing history is certainly no misleader.

From The Story of Ireland by Lawless, Emily

Lo! he is an enemy, a mere misleader.

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

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