How To Use Misdirect In A Sentence

To make sure your system operates efficiently, examine it frequently, checking for leaks, clogs, or misdirected sprinklers or drip-emitters.
In my mind, I have a picture of the people I perceive to be acting in perpetuance of these misdirections. Peace, order and good government, eh?: May 2006 Archives
The complaints also seek to remove references to Lipitor in advertising materials and to eliminate computer links that misdirect patients to an illegal, unapproved product.
Many of the aid projects in the developing world have been misdirected in the past.
Conservation efforts had been misdirected. Times, Sunday Times

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This has serious policy implications, because, if we misunderstand the causes of what concerns us, we misdirect our efforts to change it.
For reasons already given we do not accept that the judge's self-direction was vitiated by legal misdirection.
The trial judge had misdirected the jury, but the conviction was safe because no reasonable jury could have acquitted the defendant. Times, Sunday Times
As to relations with the opposite sex, Skinner would cut no ice with Germaine Greer but he makes a well-intentioned if misdirected stab at equality.
Even more likely, it could be deliberate misdirection, a Nabokovian wink the author shares with the reader perspicacious enough to call his bluff.
DEBT DEFAULT TIP: Misdirection is a great way to cut the breadline. HUFFPOST HILL - That Crashing Sound You Hear Is Your Portfolio
The strategy of misdirect is always the way a good misleading person would function. Think Progress » Drudge Falsely Smears Gore
This theme has to be glossed somewhat, because of the platform, but we can make the point that much criticism of our appointees has been misdirected.
The original judge misdirected the jury on points of law. Times, Sunday Times
So much wasted effort and misdirected concern. Times, Sunday Times
Thus reason, too, can be misused, misdirected, or misleading.
Among the problems caused by poor communications: excess inventories along the supply chain, misdirected products, unauthorized substitutions and spoilage.
Our mail was misdirected to the wrong street.
While those intentions are surely genuine, they are misdirected.
That led to another bogey courtesy of a misdirected chip and insipid putt. Times, Sunday Times
Without well-defined goals, it is likely that efforts will be misdirected.
Finally, members of his administration coming from his Harvard alma mater will make fast and loyal friends - but friends like these tend to create a wall of impenetrability around their "leader" that could quickly insolate and misdirect him, undermining Obama's best intentions. Mario Almonte: Obama's Audacity of Hope Collides Head-On with Ill. Gov. Blagojevich's Audacity of Greed
Novices in the field of conjuring may be surprised at the diversity of ways one might misdirect attention.
If we stop short of denying to Seneca the possession of any dramatic talent, it is at any rate hard to resist the conviction that he treated the plays as a _parergon_, spending little thought or care on their _ensemble_, though at times working up a scene or scenes with an elaboration and skill as unmistakable as it is often misdirected. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
But the whole point of the question is whether Grant's case applies to a misdirected letter of acceptance.
The original judge misdirected the jury on points of law. Times, Sunday Times
More piling on and misdirection from the Obama faithful. Matthew Yglesias » Government for Sale
So much wasted effort and misdirected concern. Times, Sunday Times
This theme has to be glossed somewhat, because of the platform, but we can make the point that much criticism of our appointees has been misdirected.
Such sympathy was profoundly misdirected, comforting aggressors rather than victims.
His irritating pseudo-epilepsy stands out as one of several examples where the editing misdirects our attention to issues ancillary to the show.
Is it possible that so much brainpower, money and time is completely misdirected?
However, some students are complaining that the $64-million ‘gift’ is being misdirected.
Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection. Robert F. Kennedy
This kind of B.S. misdirection is at the heart of pretty much every income tax overhaul scheme out there. Matthew Yglesias » Tax Simplification and the Flat Tax
Suffolk police confirmed it had received a complaint about misdirected payments. Times, Sunday Times
The trial judge had misdirected the jury, but the conviction was safe because no reasonable jury could have acquitted the defendant. Times, Sunday Times
What has happened here is that the Court of Criminal Appeal has accepted that the trial judge misdirected the jury because there was a change in legal principle.
This is not because they are obtuse or stupid or misdirected.
conjurers are experts at misdirection
Other business leaders said Bolton is badly signposted, with visitors from the North often being misdirected by signs at Kearsley roundabout, and little or no signs in the centre itself.
A bout of fisticuffs ensues, and with a misdirected right hook, the villain finds himself stuck in the shock therapy equipment.
While this line of argument exposes some of the biases informing the academic boycott movement, there are two other important reasons why a boycott of Israeli universities is misdirected.
Often, as is the case here, it is a handy tool for misdirection or a neat handle from which to hang accusations.
Their efforts over the past years have been largely misdirected.
The family's lawyers yesterday said the coroner misdirected the jury, who found he was unarmed. The Sun
Without this logical information review process, creativity will drown in misdirection.
Delegates to the Democratic convention in Boston, though, did not have to hide their Kerry buttons to avoid being assaulted, harassed, or misdirected by Republican protestors.
A lie of the soul, he said, is a lie that misguides the soul, misdirects the soul away from truth. Many Impossible Things | Her Bad Mother
Director Byrum attempted to misdirect the censors by intercutting the same scenes shot in color with those in black-and-white as they would appear in the final print.
Interesting misdirect as my comments were to explore why the Discovery Institute chose to use the title professor of biochemistry rather than chemistry in a press release in which Skell questions Darwinism. The unexpected promotion of Phil Skell - The Panda's Thumb
Its sad to see that these candidates raise millions of dollars and use it to smear, misdirect, misinform, the opposition to win a chair at the power table! Pennsylvania Senate hopeful releases fundraising totals
In May, it introduced a voluntary code of practice to help account holders who have made misdirected payments. Times, Sunday Times
Suffolk police confirmed it had received a complaint about misdirected payments. Times, Sunday Times
Such conspiracy thinking is actually a misdirected partial understanding of social causation.
Her ageism is a misdirected bold strike at partisanship. Alex Koroknay-Palicz: Ann Coulter's Ageism Will Doom the Republican Party
They did another good job of misdirecting us, making it seem like the killer was interested in lashing out against his coworkers when it was something else altogether. TV Insider : Bev Vincent
We thus argue that efforts to turn the tide of adult obesity will be misdirected it they are directed primarily at turning plump children into thin children.
Too often voluntary effort is misdirected or squandered. Times, Sunday Times
The quick session produced no jams, no misdirected shots, and best of all, no springs flying through the air looking for a face to lacerate. Paradise General
ANC president Jacob Zuma said "angry people" would not "misdirect" the ruling party from its mission to improve lives, the SABC reported on Tuesday. ANC Daily News Briefing
Each subject has its own painful application of this misdirected axiom.
Forward passes and misdirected plays littered their game. Times, Sunday Times
Many of the aid projects in the developing world have been misdirected in the past.
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Misdirection is one of the prestidigitator's tools, after all, and Welles' flair for grotesquerie and offbeat humour are as much a part of the entertainment as the tortuous plot.
As a sump for adoration that might otherwise be misdirected at political leaders and go dangerously to their heads.
Suffolk police confirmed it had received a complaint about misdirected payments. Times, Sunday Times
And, perhaps, more misdirected letters. Times, Sunday Times
But the policies are misdirected and don't coax people back into work.
The novice may produce a great deal of power, but because they are relatively unskilful, the power output is misdirected with lots of thrashing about but slow forward velocity.
For two years in the midst of my distress over the poverty which, thus suddenly driven into my consciousness, had become to me the "Weltschmerz," there was mingled a sense of futility, of misdirected energy, the belief that the pursuit of cultivation would not in the end bring either solace or relief. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
If these requirements are not met managers are misdirected and their efforts are wasted. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
Rather than misdirecting attacks, they repel them altogether, as we shall see in the next chapter..
Above all, TV ad must be practical and realistic, must not exaggerated, vaunting, hit consumerofedge ball misdirect.
Conservation efforts had been misdirected. Times, Sunday Times
Cybercriminals have begun poisoning Google search results to misdirect sports fans looking to participate in March Madness festivities, security firms say. Hackers poison PCs that Google "March Madness"
And, perhaps, more misdirected letters. Times, Sunday Times
The appeal, however, was allowed upon another ground which the Court does not need to trouble itself with, that is, that the judge misdirected the jury upon the appellant's unsworn statement.
What that means is that NASA's entire space medicine program is misdirected.
Within the opening 30 minutes of play, about five goal attempts were bungled as the players misdirected shots that could have easily been placed into the nets.
A night of zany misdirection and bonding ensues.
“What you described as a misdirection play,” e-mails an anonymous Sunday couch potato, “is really an influence block. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
(Though I "adduced" no sophistries or misdirections whatsoever and, Linda, you're not following the reasoning herein, I merely invoked Oresme as an earlier, counter example, not to slight or detract from Galileo's empirical data any more than I'd wish to slight or detract from Tycho Brahe's own methodology and system, relevant to that specific period - but all that begins to get into more arcane subject matter, as noted.) On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
The problem was that much of the effort had been misdirected. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
Missing a baseball is easier than hitting it, and a misdirected throw from outfield can easily let two or three runners score who would not otherwise have made it back to home late.
The greed and the misdirected energy of this administration disgusts me.
The appeal, however, was allowed upon another ground which the Court does not need to trouble itself with, that is, that the judge misdirected the jury upon the appellant's unsworn statement.
Many of the aid projects in the developing world have been misdirected in the past.
I also noticed I was in the line of fire should Puckett misdirect one.
So much wasted effort and misdirected concern. Times, Sunday Times
If these requirements are not met managers are misdirected and their efforts are wasted. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
But a point that he made was that the judge at the hearing, the trial judge, misdirected himself to causation, and he did.
Many's the bewildered soul misdirected here in search of some nugget of information that I know nothing about, or that I covered in depth months ago but is no longer on the front page.
Hunches, guesses, insights, feelings, and intuitions lead to misdirection and error.
He even argued, if memory serves, that the root of all sin was misdirected virtue.
This latest ‘don't buy a round’ gimmick is misdirected.
Those same twenty years illustrate the ultimate destructive power of money and credit creation to misdirect production and falsify calculation, even in a period of relatively stable prices.
These hermits, acting as their own spiritual guides, were easily led to excesses and misdirection.
Agreed with hengst, just another thing to add on, if his compass is the type (as most are) with a rotating housing, he cant use the marking within the housing to keep on his original bearing, otherwise mistakes in shooting short bearings could result in compounding misdirection. Quiz #2. The first one went OK, here is another.
Pulling and dragging was too commonplace, passes were misdirected and inaccuracy reared its head frequently.
The report accuses the charity of misdirecting large quantities of aid.
It's really self-reflexive: the nominal point of a googlebomb is to hijack a common search-term to misdirect searchers (i.e., the neo-Nazis who bombed the string "jew"), but in fact, a single-word query for "jew" is a pretty weird thing to punch into Google: "Hmm, I wonder why my neighbor takes every Friday night off and lights a candle. Boing Boing: May 23, 2004 - May 29, 2004 Archives
The lower wall is dilated into a pouch caused by the points of misdirected instruments in catheterism having been rashly forced against it. Surgical Anatomy
Does a bookseller misdirect a parcel, he exclaims, 'My malison on all Blockheadisms and Torpid Infidelities of which this world is full.' Obiter Dicta
Too often voluntary effort is misdirected or squandered. Times, Sunday Times
Other business leaders said Bolton is badly signposted, with visitors from the North often being misdirected by signs at Kearsley roundabout, and little or no signs in the centre itself.
From there, it's a simple "misdirect" to label Sherrod a "confusing soul. Mike Bonifer: Breitbart's Game
You have apparently managed to rationalise this to yourself in terms of a pseudo-Stoic teleological sophistry in which every passion has a "final cause" -- an essential purpose -- such that action at odds with these essential purposes represents an immoral "disordering" of the appetites, an unacceptable misdirection from their natural/mandatory objects. Archive 2009-08-01
The family's lawyers yesterday said the coroner misdirected the jury, who found he was unarmed. The Sun
The trial judge had misdirected the jury, but the conviction was safe because no reasonable jury could have acquitted the defendant. Times, Sunday Times
David Lightman, Miami Herald, Out of bounds: McCain-Palin misdirect blame for immigration flop Discourse.net: Friday McCain/McSame Bashing (Repaired)
The letter was misdirected to our old address.
Other than as pure misdirection from the better known gas and/or carbon taxes, the VMT is about getting people to drive less, regardless of what they drive. Matthew Yglesias » VMT Madness
My luggage was misdirected to a different airport.
The original judge misdirected the jury on points of law. Times, Sunday Times
The public's admiration is misdirected, as he has done nothing to deserve it.
Within the opening 30 minutes of play, about five goal attempts were bungled as the players misdirected shots that could have easily been placed into the nets.
Forward passes and misdirected plays littered their game. Times, Sunday Times
I have created a special folder in which I toss notes on short problems with answers that are based on some sort of joke, swindle, misdirection, or other kind of flimflammery.
Martinez-Conde is particularly interested in misdirection, and the question of what it is about certain movements that attract and hold our attention. Stage magic isn’t statecraft « Isegoria
The population here is beginning to realize the blatant criminality of war co. and the best they can do is lie ,and misdirect which isn’t working any better with the public at this stage then their failed foreign policies are . Think Progress » Iraq’s New Freedom on Display: Hundreds of Thousands Chant ‘Death To America’
If, however, on offering this product no consumers can be found to purchase this tricycle, it is economically valueless, regardless of the misdirected effort that I had expended upon it.
My luggage was misdirected to a different airport.
But now with one quality control fiasco after another, it seems like finger-pointing for misdirection from the real problem. Smug Ugly - Anil Dash
The judicial errors identified by the Court of Appeal in your client's case were that the trial judge misdirected the jury as to the meaning of the words ‘knowing and believing’.
The letter was misdirected to our old address.
However, as the pandemic unfolded with a terrible ferocity across Africa, she became increasingly frustrated with the, in her view, often misdirected efforts of charitable organisations in the Western world.
The family's lawyers yesterday said the coroner misdirected the jury, who found he was unarmed. The Sun
Without this logical information review process, creativity will drown in misdirection.
Your correspondent rightly complains about the outbreak of unnecessary pedestrian islands, in particular in Banstead Road South, but when he accuses the council his concern is misdirected.
Too often voluntary effort is misdirected or squandered. Times, Sunday Times
Apparently the kids were misdirecting him a bit, but he should have known the way.
That led to another bogey courtesy of a misdirected chip and insipid putt. Times, Sunday Times
Secondly, anyone who has paid for ads would know that the last thing you want to do as a search advertiser is to "misdirect" visitors to your site i.e. visitors who aren't interested in what you're selling. Search Engine Optimization and Marketing News provided by Cumbrowski.com
Looks like Another Joe has been brainwashed by the right-whiners, is attempting to misdirect from the topic at hand by regurgitating talking-points, and wants to parade ignorant distractions. Think Progress » CPAC fueled by oil industry cash.
But I think the entire series of misdirection is itself indicative of a larger, more audacious slight of hand, one that most people overlook by the time the absolutely brilliant and insane last few scenes arrive. Seeing Double: April Fool’s Day / Happy Birthday to Me » Scene-Stealers
Be sure to inspect walls, curtains, barriers, and enclosures for holes, burn marks, and other indications of misdirected laser energy.
Any magician will tell you that misdirection is the first principle of sleight-of-hand tricks.
The problem was that much of the effort had been misdirected. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
It's an attempt, a misdirected one, I think, but a perfectly sincere attempt to work change. SACRAMENT
But that is not to say the protests are misdirected or that they are without justification.
Justice Oluwayemi held that the magistrate misdirected himself and might have been confused by the illocution (plea for leniency) by the lawyer to the convict the ex-beauty queen who was a working mother. Vanguard News
She misdirects the throw and it lands in the arms of some woman who is ecstatic and shouting, ‘I'm getting married next!’
But solidarity and patriotism can be misdirected, and it is time that we rethink our priorities.
Such sympathy was profoundly misdirected, comforting aggressors rather than victims.
Conservation efforts had been misdirected. Times, Sunday Times
In May, it introduced a voluntary code of practice to help account holders who have made misdirected payments. Times, Sunday Times
The Court of Appeal agreed that the trial judge had misdirected the jury in certain respects, but held that the jury's directions were unduly favourable to the applicant.
It may be used by illegal personnel, release false information intentionally with this, misdirect investor.
Many of the aid projects in the developing world have been misdirected in the past.
The problem was that much of the effort had been misdirected. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
If price is not at the top of the consumer's list of priorities then the advertising campaign ASDA has been running for some years is completely misdirected.
IMHO don't misdirect frustration folks ... call att or apple and yell @ someone there. Discussions: Message List - root
City's top scorer raced onto Alex Calvo Garcia's misdirected header but as he went to shoot he was tackled simultaneously by Russ Wilcox and was left writhing in agony.
He smells like a leader of men, but all kind of... kind of stunted... misdirected...' Ted was frowning --- Resin? BEHINDLINGS
Suppose that the misdirected letter of acceptance had taken two months on its way, or had never arrived.
The pedestrian misdirected the out-of-town driver
The novice may produce a great deal of power, but because they are relatively unskilful, the power output is misdirected with lots of thrashing about but slow forward velocity.
Accordingly, the tribunal had not misdirected itself as to the onus of proof. Times, Sunday Times
If these requirements are not met managers are misdirected and their efforts are wasted. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
misdirect the letter
If the comments did reflect any sympathy on his part for terrorism then clearly they were misdirected.
That led to another bogey courtesy of a misdirected chip and insipid putt. Times, Sunday Times
From Lovell's Marxist perspective the feminist debates outlined above are misdirected for a variety of reasons.
These misdirected desires oppose our godly identity and constantly threaten to overwhelm it.
Their works seem to be bitter, critical, rebellious, iconoclastic, experimental, often absurd, more often misdirected.
Here we see the furtive behavior of Tomik as a desperate need to connect, and even, given his repression, as an understandable misdirection of desire.
So they are attempting some "misdirection" -- calling attention to Ryan's two-year-old budget road map, which proposes difficult entitlement reforms. RealClearPolitics - Homepage
In May, it introduced a voluntary code of practice to help account holders who have made misdirected payments. Times, Sunday Times
He had deliberately misdirected the reporters.
Forward passes and misdirected plays littered their game. Times, Sunday Times
I just believe that their effort is profoundly misdirected.
In Robin: Search for a Hero no one bothered to fix the misdirected word balloons on page 32 that fuddle up a conversation between Tim and Dick Grayson. Archive 2009-08-01
It's ethical prestidigitation with ‘moral equivalence’ used for misdirection only.
It is in these interior scenes that we witness Singer's true, but often misdirected, strengths.
This is precisely the behavior that GOP lobbying shops use to misinform and misdirect grass roots citizens into calling Congress urging Congress to do the exact opposite of what the citizen thinks he or she is trying to do. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Reminder
Perhaps the expectation of the players was too high and when things started to go wrong, passes were spilled or misdirected and ball turned over in the tackle, they seemed to panic.
But the judge has misdirected himself plainly on the legal position.
And, perhaps, more misdirected letters. Times, Sunday Times
Misdirection is one of the prestidigitator's tools, after all, and Welles' flair for grotesquerie and offbeat humour are as much a part of the entertainment as the tortuous plot.
It has even turned worse now that traffic signs misdirect traffic for Boyle direction up that road.
Therefore, their anger may be misdirected in passive-aggressive maneuvers such as sulking or destructive gossip, she says.

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