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misdirecting
vb. (present participle of misdirect English)
Usage examples of "misdirecting".
She smiled at the security guard and he smiled back, giving only a cursory glance at her belt, where now sat the French-Canadian's employee pass, which she'd easily unhooked from his belt when she'd pointed and asked the foolish, but quite misdirecting, question about the box office.
But no use straining or consciously misdirecting the functional top part of his mind.
Certain business had stayed firm in his mind while they had done their work, had not slipped away even while they were misdirecting entire fleets of heavily armed vessels.