Misdirected Sentence Examples

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  • He never justified a prejudice; he never misdirected our admiration; he never hurt an innocent feeling or overbore a serious judgment; and he set up within us a standard of Christian scholarship to which it must ever exalt us to aspire.

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  • The legacy of his work across the world proves that his faith and his efforts were not misdirected.

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  • While humility is a virtue and we must always safeguard against arrogance, we dare not internalize misdirected and agenda-driven criticism.

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  • However, his defense of the Authorized Version is somewhat misdirected.

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  • By February, 1967, she was convinced that the study was being gravely misdirected.

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  • This misdirected will is punished by finding that the objects after which it thirsts are in truth vanity and emptiness.

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  • Each misdirected spray scattered the attendees, often in front of those more favorably positioned.

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  • The Darwen number 6 snatched at his left footed shot which was, consequently, badly misdirected.

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  • But then he read the Greenstar brochure and knew that what he ought to feel was anger at so much misdirected goodwill and effort.

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  • Luggage handling may be more cumbersome on large ships, resulting in longer waits to receive baggage and a greater risk of lost or misdirected bags.

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  • The company has strict tracking procedures to ensure that a loved one's ashes are not misdirected into other gems, and each stone is assigned a unique 16 digit tracking number before the manufacturing process begins.

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  • Multilevel marketing has had a stigma for several years, often resulting from zealous but misdirected individuals who utilized questionable methods to build their businesses.

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  • These plates protect player's legs from being injured by misdirected kicks.

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  • This picture, the world-famous "Cenacolo" of Leonardo, has been the subject of much erroneous legend and much misdirected experiment.

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  • Two were misdirected and the shot went too high, but the last round fell in the midst of a group of hussars and knocked three of them over.

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  • The misdirected activity of the civil magistrate in the 17th century is illustrated by the familiar literature of Butler, Bunyan and others.

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  • But protective processes misdirected or carried to excess may become injurious or even dangerous to the organism.

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  • Age was now creeping on Torquemada, who, however, never would allow his misdirected zeal to rest.

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  • But in 1796 he removed to Taneytown, Maryland, and in both Maryland and Pennsylvania worked with such misdirected zeal and autocratic manners that he was again reproved by his bishop in 1798.

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