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 prayers—entreaties to be prayed for, addressed to ears that could not hear, to hands that could not help.

From The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel by Irwin, M. (Madelaine)