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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



... the race. Some of our churches have been so loose as to give them membership, and every now and then some fool Negro man will marry one. This class of women hinders the progress of the race, and is indeed a curse to it, and many of the white men who seek to lead astray every good-looking woman in our race frequently refer to the immorality of colored women. The race must frown upon this class of women, and make them feel their isolation at all hazards. They should be treated as the lepers were and ...
— Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading • Various

... good fortune results not from thine own strength of arm, till God in his mercy deign to bestow it. To whom shall I complain of thee? for there is no judge else, nor is any arm mightier than thine. Him whom thou directest none can lead astray, and him whom thou bewilderest none can direct ...
— Persian Literature, Volume 2, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The - Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan • Anonymous

... was again followed by deep silence. Tyope was indeed a fascinating speaker. The maseua and the Hishtanyi Chayan were the only ones whom his oratorical talent could not lead astray. He proceeded in ...
— The Delight Makers • Adolf Bandelier

... answer no good purpose to give a description of the information to be obtained by listening to the chest. To learn from this, needs the well-trained ear; and harm, not good, comes from the half-knowledge which serves but to lead astray. ...
— The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases • Charles West, M.D.

... 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



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