Examples of misdirect in a Sentence
Their mail was misdirected to our address.
If he tells you he's not interested, he's trying to misdirect you.
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The goal of that litigation is simple: use speculative and specious legal theories to convince a jury that chain pharmacies and distribution companies should foot the bill for fixing years of ineffective and misdirected city programs and absent public health leadership.
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Lauren Sheets Jarrell, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
Maurice Drake, the judge in his trial, also presided over the Bridgewater case, in which he was accused of misdirecting the jury with a biased summing-up.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
Like a skilled magician, authors must constantly misdirect, hint and tease.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2024
Trump, a former New Yorker, is expected to characterize the nation's largest city as crime-ridden, in order to portray Bragg as a left-wing zealot who is misdirecting his energies on Trump's prosecution for 34 counts of falsifying business records, instead of focusing on street crime.
—Ben Adler, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024
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Lauren Sheets Jarrell, Baltimore Sun, 6 Aug. 2024
Maurice Drake, the judge in his trial, also presided over the Bridgewater case, in which he was accused of misdirecting the jury with a biased summing-up.
—Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
Like a skilled magician, authors must constantly misdirect, hint and tease.
—Jd Barker, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2024
Trump, a former New Yorker, is expected to characterize the nation's largest city as crime-ridden, in order to portray Bragg as a left-wing zealot who is misdirecting his energies on Trump's prosecution for 34 counts of falsifying business records, instead of focusing on street crime.
—Ben Adler, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2024
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“Misdirect.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misdirect. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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misdirect
verb
mis·di·rect
ˌmis-də-ˈrekt 
-(ˌ)dī-
: to direct incorrectly
misdirection
noun
-ˈrek-shən
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