Definition of "pied piper" []

• A person who offers others strong yet delusive enticements. (noun)
• One, such as a leader, who makes irresponsible promises. (noun)

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• "Last summer, I met two role models for my business, Life Balance, Inc. In awe I watched Craig Fuller, president and CEO of the National Chain Drug Store Association, lead his organization with a compelling kindness that is difficult to describe—a sort of benevolent yet intensely powerful pied piper leadership style that empowers both optimist and cynic alike."
• "He led them to the main ward, a blazing blue-white pied piper leading a cho­rus of dead children."