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misdirection

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The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.

An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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This program fuses magic, suggestion, psychology, misdirection and showmanship. I achieve all the results you'll see here through a varied mixture of those techniques. At no point are actors or stooges used in the show. Derren Brown

We're a different sort of thief here, Lamora. Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don't believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more. Scott Lynch

The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection. David Mamet

The essence of sorcery, even for its nonfraudulent practitioners, is misdirection. Glen Cook

...There is 10 times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it. Ernestine Rose

Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims. Rush Limbaugh

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