astray

adv. desviado, descarriado, por mal camino, en el error, extraviado

desencaminado

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*go astray = perderse, extraviarse
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*lead + astray = llevar por el mal camino

Ex: Ticknor's belief in the library's potential as one means of inhibiting the chances of unscrupulous politicians who would lead the ignorant astray explains his insistence that the public library be as popular in appeal as possible.

= desencaminado, por mal camino
Ex: This is why I think that they can face the fact that America is astray.
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* go astray = perderse, extraviarse
* lead + astray = llevar por el mal camino