Example Sentences

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Misdirected empathy on my part, I know, but I don’t remember being so uncomfortable about it last fall, when the show ran at St. Ann’s Warehouse.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2019

Q. Misdirected Hatred: I went to Pennsylvania State University, and after the recent discoveries, one of my significant other’s friends has come to have extreme hatred for me.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2011

Misdirected and drenched with rain, the two tired reinforcing divisions could do little to help amid the confusion of the battlefield.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various

Misdirected, it will be everlasting ruin to yourself, and perhaps to me also.

From Catherine Booth — a Sketch by Duff, Colonel Mildred

Misdirected contention         Contending for the evidence or indulging the demands 380:9 of sin, disease, or death, we virtually contend against         the control of Mind over body, and deny the         power of Mind to heal.

From Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Eddy, Mary Baker