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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of misdirect.

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Examples

  • "In all the plans, more than half the money to pay for the proposal is already in the system," Sebelius said, referring to what she called misdirected money for ineffective programs and other instances of waste and inefficiency.

    CNN.com 2009

  • "In all the plans, more than half the money to pay for the proposal is already in the system," Sebelius said, referring to what she called misdirected money for ineffective programs and other instances of waste and inefficiency.

    ModerateVoters.org 2009

  • It’s not that ACPO are stupid it’s just that they’ve been misdirected from the start. on October 8, 2009 at 7: 27 am Damo

    How “Police Performance” Fraud Works. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Barry Blitt and Francois Mouly was the designer, and I thought it was a successful experiment to see if a style of satire that's extremely subtle and misdirected, which is their style, could be used with iconography that related to racism and terrorism.

    MotherJones.com 2009

  • "In all the plans, more than half the money to pay for the proposal is already in the system," Sebelius said, referring to what she called "misdirected" money for ineffective programs and other instances of waste and inefficiency.

    Health care proposals need more work, health secretary says 2009

  • So all this “writing down assets destroys money” stuff seems kind of misdirected or worse.

    Matthew Yglesias » Permanent Income Hypothesis 2009

  • (In an appearance with Mexican President Felipe Calderón on Wednesday, Obama reiterated his commitment to an immigration overhaul and called the Arizona measure "misdirected" and "troublesome.")

    Will Arizona’s Tough Immigration Law Fuel Hispanic Turnout for Democrats? 2010

  • The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Carlos Pascual, who worked for six months to arrange the state visit for Calderón, has sought to calm emotions, repeating at every opportunity that President Obama and his administration consider the Arizona measure "misdirected" and are exploring legal challenges.

    In U.S. visit, Mexican president to discuss drug war, immigration 2010

  • Considering the intended readership of TNR, that kind of misdirected advertising can't be doing them any favors.

    Stodgy old TNR whines about how cool Politco is. Ann Althouse 2009

  • In February of 2003, over 450 of the finest economic minds in the country including TEN individuals who had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, issued a statement calling the 2003 Bush tax cut plan "misdirected".

    Economic Woes a Result of the Iraq War and Bush Tax Cuts 2008

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