misdirected

• They had been misdirected, and so were forced to return downstairs to the courtyard and go up another staircase, where at last they found, on guard outside a door marked surgical wing, an inspector from the Eighteenth Arrondissement whom they knew. —  Maigret and the Apparition - Episode 90 - Georges Simenon
• She was always sure she lingered in the foyer until the mail was delivered so she would be certain her letters weren't accidentally misdirected, and twice a week she gave her letters to Ann Marie to post for her. —  Garwood, Julie - Rose 1 - For the Roses
• During the long period in which her mental energies were thus misdirected, a cloud of darkness enveloped her spirit. —  Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel
• Barry Blitt and Francois Mouly was the designer, and I thought it was a successful experiment to see if a style of satire that's extremely subtle and misdirected, which is their style, could be used with iconography that related to racism and terrorism. —  MotherJones.com
• The latest plan may also be misdirected, economists said. —  Top Stories - Google News

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