What is "misdirected"

Usage examples of "misdirected".

The creation of robots was looked upon as the prime example of the overweening arrogance of humanity, of its attempt to take on, through misdirected science, the mantle of the divine.

They know I have misdirected them once before, by planting false information in the mind of one of our scouts.

Our economy is unstable, our culture is stagnating, our ambition has been misdirected and stifled.

Minds are overburdened in school, with too much teaching or misdirected teaching.

Treatment intended to be remedial is therefore very often misdirected and fails to afford relief, positive injury frequently resulting instead.

I have misdirected you with the talk of truth, objective records and motives.

Alassra had survived far worse than a misdirected traveling spell, though usually it took more than children and domestic animals to confound her.