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
And, having neglected to do this, he ought not to have lectured him as his misleader.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley
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 Samuel Richardson
He was born to be, what he was - a misleader of men.
From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Henry J. (Henry John) Coke
That villainous abominable misleader of youth, Falstaff, that old white-bearded Satan.
From King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare
