Significats de misdirected ingenuity en anglès

The slates are preserved in our sad museum of specimens of misdirected ingenuity.

It has even been instructive, as showing to what extent it is possible for plain facts to be perverted by misdirected ingenuity.

But it had been brought about by misdirected ingenuity, and she valued it only as she valued an artificial flower or a wax fruit.

We frequently see the workingman leap the barrier into the bourgeoisie, and then disclose himself as a unique flower of knavery, extortion and misdirected ingenuity.