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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To prevent this instinct from becoming overactive or misdirected, Kohanski said that owners should teach dogs a release cue to signal that the situation is safe.
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Michelle De Ritter Eustis Threatening allies, coddling dictators President Donald Trump’s use of muscular diplomacy with our allies is misdirected.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2025
The screenplay written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor is chock full of clever setups, payoffs, hints, and misdirects that not only play with the established canon of previous Final Destination titles, but also build upon them in brilliant fashion.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
The whole concept that a cop would purposefully misdirect an entire town and her family about where a girl died because something looked vaguely weird about the boys on the boat with her is absurd, and again, there was proof of that anyway, which everyone seemed content to ignore.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
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Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
Michelle De Ritter Eustis Threatening allies, coddling dictators President Donald Trump’s use of muscular diplomacy with our allies is misdirected.
—Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2025
The screenplay written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor is chock full of clever setups, payoffs, hints, and misdirects that not only play with the established canon of previous Final Destination titles, but also build upon them in brilliant fashion.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
The whole concept that a cop would purposefully misdirect an entire town and her family about where a girl died because something looked vaguely weird about the boys on the boat with her is absurd, and again, there was proof of that anyway, which everyone seemed content to ignore.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
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“Misdirect.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misdirect. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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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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