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- noun Plural form of
misdirection .
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Examples
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From the beginning, we see Frank Abagnale, Jr. arrested at a Miami airport for an array of misdeeds and misdirections.
Regina Weinreich: Con Me If You Can: The Broadway Musical Regina Weinreich 2011
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Well lets see how this plays out now that the new way is to push back on the wrong side party ` s filibuster crap. both Schultz and Gibbs need to spend time on debunking lies and misdirections and less time padding there ego ` s.
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So HBO's polygamy drama Big Love has come out in a complete series boxed set and now we can start to get a handle on what we've got here, the highs and the lows, the misdirections, the confused plotlines that sometimes petered out and sometimes paid off.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Apes Rule in "Rise," "Tokyo Drifter" And A Smurfing Lot Of Other Titles On Tap Michael Giltz 2011
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From the beginning, we see Frank Abagnale, Jr. arrested at a Miami airport for an array of misdeeds and misdirections.
Regina Weinreich: Con Me If You Can: The Broadway Musical Regina Weinreich 2011
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Good story structure, after all, can be anything: it can be loopy and deconstructed; it can turn chronology inside out, shatter the fourth wall, break reality, and be as full of surprises, misdirections, and dead ends as a moonlit neighborhood in Venice, the kind you chase a murderous dwarf through because you're convinced it's a kid in a red raincoat.
Susan Kim: The Fiction of Nonfiction TV Susan Kim 2011
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I felt more than a tad guilty, in fact, spinning fabrications and misdirections in St. Urhos, on the Thursday evening immediately after my arrival, as I caught up with my friends in Finnish fandom.
Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 3: Hail, Helsinki! Hal Duncan 2010
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Beyond the well-known implications of such a war and its scope, a declaration of war would only bolster an Iran that is economically and domestically weak and run by a cleric established looking for an outsider on which to further project conspiratorial misdirections through its state-run media.
Adam Chandler: Show, Don't Tell: WikiLeaks and Our War with Iran Adam Chandler 2010
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Beyond the well-known implications of such a war and its scope, a declaration of war would only bolster an Iran that is economically and domestically weak and run by a cleric established looking for an outsider on which to further project conspiratorial misdirections through its state-run media.
Adam Chandler: Show, Don't Tell: WikiLeaks and Our War with Iran Adam Chandler 2010
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The heart of the problem is what those powers-that-be are up against, the pressure exerted by the prejudiced and privileged to maintain this unjust segregation by shrouding it in misdirections and misrepresentations.
A Sodomite's Sermon Hal Duncan 2009
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Good story structure, after all, can be anything: it can be loopy and deconstructed; it can turn chronology inside out, shatter the fourth wall, break reality, and be as full of surprises, misdirections, and dead ends as a moonlit neighborhood in Venice, the kind you chase a murderous dwarf through because you're convinced it's a kid in a red raincoat.
Susan Kim: The Fiction of Nonfiction TV Susan Kim 2011
bilby commented on the word misdirections
Missed what?! They have pills for that these days.
November 1, 2009
gangerh commented on the word misdirections
Never waste one.
November 1, 2009