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Lead astray   /lɛd əstrˈeɪ/   Listen
Lead astray

verb
1.
Teach immoral behavior to.  Synonym: lead off.
2.
Lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions.  Synonyms: misdirect, misguide, mislead.
3.
Cause someone to believe an untruth.  Synonyms: betray, deceive.






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"Lead astray" Quotes from Famous Books



... thus ridding herself of a dangerous member, and, by the same act, enlarging the sphere of her own dominion. Does an enthusiast become noisy, or troublesome upon unimportant points, the creed is flexible, and the mother will not quarrel with her child, for his earnestness may convince and lead astray more valuable sons and daughters. She will establish a new order, of which the stubborn fanatic shall be founder; the new order is built into the old church organization, and its founder becomes a dignitary of the ecclesiastical establishment. Instead of becoming a dangerous heretic and schismatic, ...
— Western Characters - or Types of Border Life in the Western States • J. L. McConnel

... of being shut out, even in our thoughts, from this world. And then, I hear that down on earth there will be much sin and misery, and a power to tempt and lead astray. O, if we can but resist it, dear brother. What will this power be, ...
— Added Upon - A Story • Nephi Anderson

... kanto. Lay (trans. v.) meti. Lay (eggs) demeti (ovojn). Lay bare senigi. Lay hold of ekkapti. Lay open malkovri. Lay waste ruinigi. Layer (stratum) tavolo. Layman nereligiulo. Laziness mallaboreco. Lazy mallaborema. Lead konduki. Lead (metal) plumbo. Lead astray deturni. Lead away dekonduki. Leaf (tree) folio. Leaf folio. League (union) ligo. Leaguer ligano. Leak guteti. Lean klini. Lean malgrasa. Lean, to grow malgrasigxi. Leap salti. Leap forward antauxensalti. ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... his more detailed character and readier villany. The trick has been adopted; the favourite has grown fast. He has become the Vice. Compared with him the rest of the Vices appear foolish fellows whom it is his delight to plague and lead astray. So supreme is he in wickedness that he has even been given the Devil himself as his godfather, uncle, playmate. It is his duty to keep alive the natural wickedness in man, to set snares and evil mischances before the feet of simpler folk, to teach youth to be idle and young men to be quarrelsome, ...
— The Growth of English Drama • Arnold Wynne

... was stopped. That was an end. I was sent to the lonely parish where I am, where there was no one I could lead astray. They have left me there. We must have patience; the world was destroyed by water, it has yet to be ...
— The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays • William B. Yeats


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