misdirect
verb (used with object)
to direct or address wrongly or incorrectly.
misdirected
Example Sentences
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Defence lawyers argued on appeal that they had been misdirected and reached a verdict which went against the weight of expert evidence.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
But, if he wrote to prove genius as a prognosticator, it’s a misdirected column.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
That wasn’t an act of misdirected reverence but a refusal of reverence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
If AI was used, he argued that the key question is "how old was the data" used for the targeting, and whether the misdirected strike stemmed from "a database error".
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 2026
By then we knew that all my previous fuss about the importance of Mg++ ions was misdirected.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
