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Misdirection

noun
1.
An incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge.
2.
Incorrect directions or instructions.
3.
Management that is careless or inefficient.  Synonym: mismanagement.
4.
The act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something.  Synonym: distraction.





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"Misdirection" Quotes from Famous Books



... so, lastly, we have here another group still—the priests and people. They represent for us the torpor and misdirection ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII • Alexander Maclaren
... of the vast resources that the European invention of railways and telegraphic communication put within reach of the American people. It has stimulated men to a greater individual activity, perhaps, than the world has ever seen before. Men have been wasted by misdirection no doubt, but there has been less waste by inaction and lassitude than was the case in any previous society. Great bulks of things and great quantities of things have been produced, huge areas brought under cultivation, vast cities reared in ...
— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells
... Indifference and misdirection are our greatest enemies in times of peace. These hinder our growth and if allowed to exist, will ultimately lead to our becoming ...
— Industrial Progress and Human Economics • James Hartness
... N. misteaching^, misinformaton, misintelligence^, misguidance, misdirection, mispersuasion^, misinstruction^, misleading &c v.; perversion, false teaching; sophistry &c 477; college of Laputa; the blind leading the blind. [misteaching by government agents] propaganda, disinformation, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... was the happiest period of his literary life as well as the most successful. During it he produced many of his greatest creations. One decided failure he made; but with this exception if each new story did not seem to exhibit any new power, it at least gave no sign of weakness, or misdirection of energy. This period is in fact so supremely the creative one of Cooper's life as regards the conception of character and scene that nearly all he did ...
— James Fenimore Cooper - American Men of Letters • Thomas R. Lounsbury


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