lead astray

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lead someone astray

1. to influence someone so that they do bad things. Parents always worry about their children being led astray by unsuitable friends.

2. to cause someone to make a mistake. The police were led astray by false information from one of the witnesses.

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Did she tell you about a boy, the son of pious and rich parents, whom she tried to lead astray into the wildness of thoughts like her own, till the poor dear child drove her off because she outraged his modesty? The Arrow of Gold by Conrad, Joseph View in context It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit with virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which wit had been lead astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context More results

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Did she tell you about a boy, the son of pious and rich parents, whom she tried to lead astray into the wildness of thoughts like her own, till the poor dear child drove her off because she outraged his modesty?

The Arrow of Gold by Conrad, Joseph View in context

It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit with virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which wit had been lead astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism.

English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context

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