His poetry is a stray vagrant gleam, which will not be extinguished within him, yet rises not to be the true light of his path, but is often a wildfire that misleads him.
Are you not he That frights the maidens of the villagery, Misleads night–wanderers laughing at their harm?
And the Devil who misleads them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are also the beast and the false prophet; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Some said: He is a good man; others said: Nay, but he misleads the multitude.
Blind ignorance misleads us thus and delights with the results of lascivious joys.
When you teach me that my reason misleads me, do you not refute what it might have said on your behalf?
The science which instructs and the medicine which heals are no doubt excellent, but the science which misleads us and the medicine which kills us are evil.
My child, self-interest misleads us; the hope of the just is the only sure guide.
Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait.
Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
His obstacle is his ignorance, which misleads him in the means, and deceives him in causes and effects.
If, therefore, we are defeated here, we cannot plead for ourselves that we have done this from a sudden gust of passion, which sometimes agitates and sometimes misleads the most grave popular assemblies.
We have not come here to you, in the rash heat of a day, with that fervor which sometimes prevails in popular assemblies, and frequently misleads them.
The contract supposes that the thing sold be of a certain character, and hence injustice is done if one of the parties wilfully misleads the other about that character.
He is also displeased that, in spite of his own greater learning and soundness, he has not the influence possessed by Balbus, who misleads many by long-winded sophistry.
This desiremisleads us to accept bad reasons for good ones.
The shortness of human life misleadsus into forming many erroneous ideas about the qualities of man.
That in these sciences sophistry is especially injurious, because it misleads public opinion where opinion is a power--that is, law.
The wrong judgment that misleads us, and makes the will often fasten on the worse side, lies in misreporting upon the various comparisons of these.
This is an affected and present ignorance, which misleads our judgments as much as the other.
This mistake misleads us, both in the choice of the good we aim at, and very often in the means to it, when it is a remote good.
Frequently, too, this mode of numbering misleads the bookbinder, who (unless properly cautioned) numbers the volumes in the ordinary manner.
What misleads the adversaries of machinery and foreign importations is, that they judge of them by their immediate and transitory effects, instead of following them out to their general and definitive consequences.
Dare I adopt, as the basis of the legislation of a great nation, a science which thus misleads me by false lights, which has conducted me to this horrible blasphemy, and landed me in so dreadful an alternative?
This, though seemingly an exact rendering of the Hebrew, wholly misleads the English reader.
A mistaken idea of "singing forward" misleads most to press it forward and thus allow it to be speedily dissipated.
The power of contraction of the muscles of speech is insufficient, and this insufficiencymisleads the singer to constrict the throat muscles, which are not trained to the endurance of it; thereby further progress is made impossible.
The Franche-Comte peasantry talk of a mysterious plant thatmisleads travellers.
It's Mr. Laxley that misleads Mr. Harry, who has got his good nature, and means no more harm than he can help.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misleads" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
