Word: misleader
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...somewhat platitudinous manner (his favorite clichés are "let's walk around that idea" and "facts-not opinions") is apt to mislead strangers about the kind of businessman 54-year-old Donald Davis really is. No Horatio Alger up-from-nothing boy, he studied engineering at Michigan with the cold-blooded notion that he would avoid settling on any one career until he was 35. Living up to his credo, he shifted from senior engineer for a wheel company to cost accounting for a trust company to factory manager for an auto-accessory company which was making...
...Before German tank columns attempted a breakthrough, artillery frequently laid down a barrage, lasting as much as an hour, to mislead the Russians about the direction of the planned attack. Red-bannered Nazi tanks were sent into the Soviet lines on superscouting expeditions...
...been increased by one penny" (implying that British seamen were risking their lives to fatten the big corporations). As supporting evidence for his charge, Morrison quoted a paragraph from a Mirror editorial: "The accepted tip for Army leadership would, in plain words, be this: All who aspire to mislead the other in war should be brass-buttoned boneheads, socially prejudiced, arrogant and fussy. A tendency to heart disease, apoplexy, diabetes and high blood pressure is desirable in the highest spots...
...bill of particulars said that all products thus guaranteed did not live up to the claims made for them, that the seals tend to "mislead and deceive" buyers. Further FTC complaints: that readers get the erroneous impression that all products advertised in Good Housekeeping are covered by such seals of approval; and that advertisers use the statement "guaranteed by Good Housekeeping as advertised therein" with the phrase "as advertised therein" so blurred or microscopic as to be almost unreadable...
With the grim reality of World War overshadowing all, there was no time during the vacation for Christmas cheer among the forces of William Allen White, Verne Marshall, the columnists and the politicians; they were too busy clarifying their positions and branding each other as small minorities seeking to mislead the people. The two weeks of the vacation witnessed a heightening tempo of war fever and of bitter debate, reaching a mighty crescendo in President Roosevelt's defiant message to Congress yesterday...