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1. To aim (a blow or projectile, for example) badly.
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2. To give wrong instructions or directions to.
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3. To put a wrong address on (a piece of mail).
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4. Looks like Another Joe has been brainwashed by the right-whiners, is attempting to misdirect from the topic at hand by regurgitating talking-points, and wants to parade ignorant distractions.
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5. David Lightman, Miami Herald, Out of bounds: McCain-Palin misdirect blame for immigration flop
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6. The strategy of misdirect is always the way a good misleading person would function.