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misdirection

/mis-di-rek-shuhn/US // ˌmɪs dɪˈrɛk ʃən //

误导,误导性,误导行为,误导性做法

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a wrong or incorrect direction, guidance, or instruction.
    • : Law. an erroneous charge to the jury by a judge.

Examples

  • It was the first of her many staggering escapes and misdirections.

  • But under what moral principle must a nation mimic both the madness and the misdirection of its enemy?

  • The constant disinformation, distraction, misdirection, confabulation, and endless stream of threats actually works.

  • Is this a Benghazi misdirection from those masters of deception in the White House, a latter day Whitewater?

  • This misdirection is also likely what led CNN and Fox News to mistakenly report that the mandate had been struck down.

  • In that regard, Eisner proved confounding, with his comments reading more like misdirection than tea leaves.

  • It affected him as a part of the general misdirection of affection and effort in the world.

  • The plea was misdirection and want of time, so that, in itself, the matter was one of secondary importance.

  • This fatal result of an enthusiasm for classical literature was hastened and heightened by the misdirection of the powers of art.

  • The mistake arose from a misdirection in two notes which the admiral had written on the same subject.

  • Trousseau says that it is produced by a misdirection of the natural pigments of the body, resulting from age, climate, or disease.