Words and phrases that have a meaning related to misdirection: (126 results)
Often used in the same context:
trickery, subterfuge, blitzing, deception, slants, shiftiness, downfield, obfuscation, hail mary, backfield, chicanery, feints, elusiveness, handoffs, offense, quickness, sneakiness, playbook, deceit, slyness, jukes, stratagem, yardage, pitchout, sleights, tailback, blitzer, gimmickry, formations, dink, duplicity, verbiage, doublespeak, deviousness, boneheadedness, dumbness, gimmicks, disinformation, dirty tricks, bunts, underhandedness, wingback, gamesmanship, deceptiveness, scatback, ineptness, screwball, scrimmage, hegelian dialectic, fastbreak, tu quoque, misinformation, ballcarrier, wishbone, bootlegs, legerdemain, safeties, hokum, unoriginality, ploys, cunningness, flimflam, footwork, opportunism, finesse, stealth, illogic, fullbacks, lobs, devilry, progressions, upfield, fakes, grift, gotcha, weakside, rushers, implausibility, air raid, backdoor, fluster, quarterback, bamboozle, terribleness, blockers, ruses, prostyle, skullduggery, dribble, linemen, circumlocution, craftiness, subtlety, innuendo, gutlessness, cravenness, sophistry, gambits, athleticism, incompletion, demagoguery, sloppiness, incoherence, disharmony, estrangement, misunderstanding, dereliction, discouragement, disorientation, misapprehension, privation, disconnection, enticement, equivocation, misrepresentation, misunderstandings, shortcoming, alienation, confusion, defilement, derogation, incapacity
More general:
Also try:charge, commission, direction, instruction
— Adjectives for misdirection: such, aqueous, serious, much, deliberate, little, alleged, conjugal, possible, simple, physical, more...
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