(v. t.) To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.
Example Sentences:
(1) This technique was used to bring misdirected urinations in a severely retarded male under rapid stimulus control of a floating target in the commode.
(2) I argue that these lines of argument are conceptually misdirected and have no bearing on the bare permissibility of voluntary euthanasia.
(3) These "misdirected wiping responses" have been explained in terms of two alternative hypotheses of nerve regeneration: nerve respecification or selective reinnervation.
(4) One school of thought, the "eliminative materialistics," see FP as a misdirected and scientifically redundant approach to the mind which should be discarded; the "functionalists," in contrast, consider FP categories, such as belief, to be essential.
(5) These aberrant connections, which may represent misdirected corticospinal fibers, help to explain the impairment of voluntary movements experienced by these subjects.
(6) The sympathetic block of the nerves supplying the head, neck, and arm (Horner's syndrome) resulted from a misdirected intraoral local anesthetic injection.
(7) In a case of general fibrosis syndrom we found almost normally contracting vertical recti, which is compatible only with a supranuclear or misdirectional cause.
(8) Progress had been made with these methods and it is suggested that remediation may be misdirected if the primary language retrieval problem is overlooked in such cases.
(9) b) Management of trichiasis: Electrolysis of misdirected lashes leads to contraction and renewed misdirection.
(10) In Albini’s view, these plans may prove lofty but misdirected.
(11) When, however, neurotic fears, secondary gain, or guilt underlying the inhibited or misdirected will are thoroughly analysed, patients are enabled to strive for their long-range aims, as clarified during the course of their analysis.
(12) The Tory administration, being determined to secure contracts for both its arms manufacturers and the construction company Balfour Beatty, misdirected some £200m to finance a white elephant dam in Malaysia, through an obscure funding mechanism called the Aid and Trade Provision.
(13) You too can perfectly well continue to use Facebook, and even adopt Facebook Home, as long as you make sure to "curate" your data trail with appropriate misdirection.
(14) Opponents, close to the Kremlin, claim he was misguided and misdirected by Berezovsky and others.
(15) But the most insidious, most outrageous and grandest misdirection being put forward by those responsible is that nobody could have seen this coming.
(16) Saccade latency, in the saccade task, and the percentage of errors (misdirected saccades made towards the visual target), in the antisaccade task, were compared in each group of patients with the values of 20 control subjects.
(17) It was concluded that misdirected reflexes are mediated via dorsal nerve branches occupying normal mid-dorsal areas of the back.
(18) When the dam-16 allele is present together with mutD5 a reduced efficiency of repair as well as loss of strand discrimination and misdirected repair results in the appearance of transition mutations at high frequency.
(19) The clinical and electromyographic signs of the misdirection syndrome after oculomotor palsy are described.
(20) On 'valid' cue trials, the cue directed attention to the target's spatial coordinates; on 'invalid' cue trials, the cue misdirected attention.
Misguide
Definition:
(v. t.) To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.
(n.) Misguidance; error.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and that a misguided strategy could damage rather than help Israel's victims.
(2) If so, it’s a misguided belief, with the digital age disrupting politics as it does so many other areas of life.
(3) "Following a meeting with the Secretary of State Ed Davey today, we are considering our position as clearly the challenge for us and the entire solar industry in the UK is within the detail of the CFD regime itself; which solar is now being forced into and more specifically, how this system is going to be implemented for solar; which clearly has different considerations to other technologies.” Updated at 5.53pm BST 5.48pm BST My verdict Our question today was probably misguided.
(4) I think if anyone was expecting a turnaround [so soon] that was misguided.
(5) Some providers, including both schools and colleges, misguidedly retain learners in unsuitable provision or try to duplicate provision in schools that is better delivered in further education colleges or work-based learning providers."
(6) "The American people themselves have been put at risk by these actions that I believe are arrogant, misguided and ultimately not helpful in any way," he said.
(7) Cubism as practised by Picasso and Braque they thought courageous, up to a point, but misguided.
(8) Thus alternative medicine may become a disadvantage, a danger for science (lavished means) and society (misguidance of patients).
(9) Everything he said was misguided – and he demonised us.
(10) You are now smarter than the various female celebrities and misguided women who pay for ridiculous treatments with names like "blood transfusion facials" and "gold facials" and God knows what else.
(11) Erroneous presumptions about children's reactions to pain have misguided professionals' management of this issue.
(12) Their proposed EO really I think was too simplistic and misguided because it was identifying one’s nationality as being responsible for a potential terrorist act,” Brennan said.
(13) Some will look back at that age and see either misguided paternalism or rank naivety.
(14) It was a misguided action by an unauthorised individual that should never have occurred,” John Rogers, executive general manager, southern Pacific, of Wilson Security, told the inquiry.
(15) More recently, fanned by misguided but vigorous religious doctrine, the situation has changed dramatically.
(16) Attempts to explain infantile autism in terms of just one underlying neurological or psychological deficit may be misguided.
(17) Misguided emphasis on the most extreme and photogenic radical right groups also plays out in Hungary.
(18) The Labour leader said he would never disparage David Cameron in the same way, even though he believes the prime minister's policies are "profoundly misguided".
(19) This is a misguided and poorly targeted way to help people with low skills,” he said.
(20) This should be founded on the mutual responsibility of those involved and no longer on a misguided idea of aid.