diversionary in English

adjective

[di'ver·sion·ar·y || -ʃnərɪ]

tending to distract, serving to divert

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1. 15 Courses can be instrumental or diversionary but not contentious.

2. Adrian even offered to stage a diversionary fistfight in the hall.

3. Battle of Morton's Ford (6 – 7 February) – Diversionary Union attack.

4. Later in the year she was involved in diversionary attacks in support of Operation Pedestal and bombarded Rhodes.

5. Initially, Napoleon thought the Austrians were conducting a diversionary action, but it soon became clear that this was a full-scale assault; urgent dispatches were sent to the now dispersed French divisions to march to Marengo.

6. His tenure was not altogether successful, partly because he was deceived by his ally, the Duke of Marlborough, into a diversionary attack, and partly because Emperor Joseph I appropriated the funds necessary for George's campaign for his own use.

7. ‘The Archness doesn't really get in the way of the crime fighting, but it does lift this book from potentially boring to perfectly diversionary summer reading.’ More example sentences ‘There is no Archness in the presentation of this stuff; it does not read with a hint of irony, it …

8. Watteau's touch is as nervous as his subject, as though the paintings themselves belonged to the same psychic reality that was lived by his traveling companies of actors, or his Amorists arising from the enchantments of Cythera, or his lords and ladies pausing to embrace or to execute a diversionary dance or to break for a moment the restless comings and goings of frantic and distracted days.