misleader

From Middle English misledere, equivalent to mislead +‎ -er. Compare Dutch misleider (“misleader, deceiver”), Swedish missledare.

misleader (plural misleaders)

1. One who leads into error.

• “misleader”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• merladies, misdealer, remedials, mis-dealer