misdirect

How to use misdirect in a sentence

• The effect of this is depraving: it contracts the soul, misdirects its energies, and blunts the edge of its spiritual sensibility.

  Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I | Francis Augustus Cox

• Knowledge is valuable for action, and error is chiefly hurtful in so far as it misdirects conduct.

  Illusions | James Sully

• Without it he misdirects his own movements, and mistakes continually the orders of his superintending workman.

  In the School-Room | John S. Hart

• He confuses and so far misdirects the sympathies in issues which strictly are at once moral and dramatic.

  Robert Louis Stevenson | Alexander H. Japp

• The vicious novel increases the creation of the sex life and at the same time misdirects it.

  Self Knowledge and Guide to Sex Instruction | T. W. Shannon