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

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

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)

This personage was glorious; his power was tremendous, his speech most eloquent; but, alas, he was a misleader of the people.”

From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá

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, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)