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
As he has been the guiltiest misleader in ecclesiastical questions, his retirement is appropriate at the moment when we are trying to get the ear of the Pope.
From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron Acton
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
I have had the satisfaction of denying them the exhibition they anticipated, and I cheer myself with the hope that they have visited their disappointment upon their misleader.
From Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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 Samuel Richardson
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