maldirected

Updated: May 15, 2025

I thought that the Code had been purposely maldirected in order to furnish certain people with an opportunity to wrangle, to the utmost limit, over the smallest words; even today it seems to me that a phrase clearly worded can not reasonably bear such diverse interpretation.

J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans - Sac-Au-Dos: 1907