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Meanings of misdirected ingenuity in English
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Usage of misdirected ingenuity in English
1
The slates are preserved in our sad museum of specimens of misdirected ingenuity.
2
It has even been instructive, as showing to what extent it is possible for plain facts to be perverted by misdirected ingenuity.
3
But it had been brought about by misdirected ingenuity, and she valued it only as she valued an artificial flower or a wax fruit.
4
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.