Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Inaccurate aim.
- n. Incorrect instructions or directions.
- n. Law An error made by a judge in charging a jury.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of misdirecting, or the state of being misdirected; wrong direction; an erroneous indication, guidance, or instruction: as, the misdirection of a letter; a judge's misdirections to the jury.
Wiktionary
- n. An act of misleading, of convincing someone to concentrate in an incorrect direction.
- n. UK, law An error of law within a judgement committed by a judge or judges of a lower court, particularly as found by an appeals court
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
- n. (Law) An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law.
- n. The direction of another's attention to an unimportant place or matter, for the purpose of being able to perform an action undetected.
WordNet 3.0
- n. management that is careless or inefficient
- n. incorrect directions or instructions
- n. the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something
- n. an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge
Examples
“Other than as pure misdirection from the better known gas and/or carbon taxes, the VMT is about getting people to drive less, regardless of what they drive.”
“More piling on and misdirection from the Obama faithful.”
“But I think the entire series of misdirection is itself indicative of a larger, more audacious slight of hand, one that most people overlook by the time the absolutely brilliant and insane last few scenes arrive.”
Seeing Double: April Fool’s Day / Happy Birthday to Me » Scene-Stealers
“This kind of B.S. misdirection is at the heart of pretty much every income tax overhaul scheme out there.”
“Martinez-Conde is particularly interested in misdirection, and the question of what it is about certain movements that attract and hold our attention.”
“But now with one quality control fiasco after another, it seems like finger-pointing for misdirection from the real problem.”
“So they are attempting some "misdirection" -- calling attention to Ryan's two-year-old budget road map, which proposes difficult entitlement reforms.”
““What you described as a misdirection play,” e-mails an anonymous Sunday couch potato, “is really an influence block.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“You have no argument yourself so you engage in misdirection.”
“HILLMAN: Well, I think it ` s called misdirection because they ` re there to defend her with whatever means they can.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘misdirection’.
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Official Misconduct
Words describing types of misconduct by those in public office.
malversation, embezzlement, peculation, racketeering, jobbery, misappropriation, defalcation, venality, favouritism, favoritism, nepotism, gerrymandering and 44 more...
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Misdaub and Other Blunders
misdaub, botch, bungle, misconstrue, lapse, miscalculation, flub, gaffe, underestimation, boner, indecorum, misstate and 28 more...
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intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
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Lifehacking
Start with the effect, the what; signal-patch known-belief spirit. "Write my program, routine me." New cue vs brand loyalty. Ritual Ceremony Design Technologies, Inc.
confusion, misdirection, fractionation, disequilibrium, relaxation, repetition, impassioned, intensity, suddenly, shock, concentration, focus and 118 more...
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Dain's Words
rabble, terminus, archaic, atavism, demiurge, waylay, syzygy, jocoserious, quark, entropy, cinnabar, shamble and 912 more...
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Misdirector's Cut
Hey...
—> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> LOOK OVER THERE! —> —> —>
...sneaky, legerdemain, flimflam, unwittingly, clandestine, hornswoggle, sleveen, subversion, espionage, incognito, subreption, gank and 147 more...
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Not the Clearest of Intentions
You ever try to read someone who can't be read? What is he thinking? What is he going to do? Whose side is he really on?
hidden agenda, doublespeak, backstabbing, treasonous, covert, mysterious, questionable, shady, flattering, sycophant, brownnose, secretive and 78 more...
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pay no attention to the man behind th...
Magicians & magic tricks
legermain, prestidigitation, hocus pocus, abracadabra, ta-dah!, shell game, levitation, bending spoons, french drop, misdirection, three card monte, psychokinesis and 12 more...
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The Raff of Con
Words associated with grifting and other fraud. Watch your wallet!
scam, swindle, fraud, hoax, matchstick men, nigeria, 419, phishing, pretext, misdirection, pickpocket, cheat and 49 more...
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It's Not What You Say...
...it's how you say it. I've noticed that every person seems to have a particular favorite way to speak. What's yours?
sarcasm, subtlety, confrontation, false humility, false naïveté, bluntness, hypersensitivity, candidness, seriousness, levity, misdirection, rambling and 8 more...
Tweets
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uselessness One of my favorite words ever. I have no idea why. Apr 11, 2007