misdirect
Example Sentences
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Rather than reflecting a loss of control due to runaway habits, some compulsive behaviors may result from excessive, though misdirected, deliberate control.
From Science Daily
Last Wednesday, TikTok creators, finding none of the mayhem they expected to see in Springfield, started suggesting that faith-based groups working with Haitian immigrants were misdirecting resources.
From Salon
The upshot is that economic nationalism is misdirected.
From Barron's
No one can read without delight Norman’s exposure of the pursuit of money, power and fame—which is flawed only when misdirected and ridiculous only when denied.
Their cravings are always misdirected, their schemes both too big and too dumb to succeed.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
