mislead
verb (used with object)
to lead or guide wrongly; lead astray.
misleader
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a word derived from
mislead.
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 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
Whether he be a misleader of the people is a matter of opinion.
From The Life of Froude by Herbert W. (Herbert Woodfield) Paul
P: And he whom Allah guideth, for him there can be no misleader.
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair, Thou mad misleader of thy brainsick son!
From King Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare
