(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.
Misled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Misle
(imp. & p. p.) of Mislead
() imp. & p. p. of Mislead.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to shareholder Marvin Pearlstein, in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, the Canadian-based BlackBerry, formerly Research In Motion Ltd, misled investors last year by saying the company was "progressing on its financial and operational commitments," and that previews of its BlackBerry 10 platform had been well received by developers.
(2) However, evidence obtained by the committee showed the document had "deliberately misled" the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), she said.
(3) Asked if he thought the committee had been misled, Whittingdale replied: "I'm not sure yet."
(4) "The suggestion that I deliberately misled the committee and refused to apologise are both untrue and unfair," she wrote in a letter to Keith Vaz, the committee's chairman.
(5) • Crone and the former NoW editor Colin Myler "misled the committee by answering questions falsely about their knowledge of evidence that other News of the World employees had been involved in phone-hacking and other wrongdoing".
(6) People might have died if the public had been misled on that point.
(7) Chief among them is that the administration misled the American people about the nature of the attack during a presidential election campaign and stonewalled congressional investigators.
(8) The Speaker, John Bercow, is certain to grant an urgent statement to MPs requiring ministers to explain whether they have misled the house, or acted in breach of a parliamentary resolution.
(9) As Alan Johnson came close today to accusing Scotland Yard of having misled him over the scandal, a leaked Home Office memo shows that the last government decided against calling in Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary after intense internal lobbying.
(10) Your article ( Senior police officer 'misled parliament' over phone hacking , 11 March) repeats comments made by Chris Bryant MP in Thursday's debate in the Commons.
(11) Duncan Smith and David Cameron have brushed aside claims that MPs were still being misled about UC's progress after the head of the civil service on Monday said the business case for universal credit had not been signed off by the Treasury.
(12) Asked by BBC Radio 4's Media Show if she thought the committee had previously been misled, Hodge said: "We will have to discover that next Monday.
(13) "I am amazed that the case is being made that in some way these students, misled, going into a most dangerous place – perhaps the most dangerous place on Earth – should be forced to allow a programme to take place that they oppose," he said.
(14) In the House of Commons last week, Chris Bryant MP said that Yates had misled the committees by claiming that it is illegal to hack voicemail messages only if they have not already been heard by the intended recipient.
(15) Deutsche Bank share price In a similar case, rival Goldman Sachs agreed in April to pay $5.06 billion to settle claims that it misled mortgage bond investors during the financial crisis.
(16) "One way of reading the contradictory explanations between the sergeant at arms and what the DPP has said is that the police misled her, and I think that's a very serious issue which needs to be looked into," he told Sky News.
(17) In a recent statement, the PCC denied that it had been "materially misled" by accepting previous assurances from the News of the World that Goodman had "acted alone".
(18) Two years ago the PCC published a report following allegations it was misled by the News of the World during an inquiry into phone hacking at the paper it conducted in 2007.
(19) "It's the people who were persuaded to vote no who were misled, who were gulled, who were tricked effectively.
(20) "The commission came to a view – based on the information available at the time – as to whether it had been misled by the News of the World.