How to Use misguide in a Sentence
misguide
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Second, the props and disguises were misguided for a space as large as the Shed.
— Jeremy Yudkin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023 -
To think that time will heal that problem is misguided.
— Dennis Manoloff, cleveland.com, 7 Feb. 2018 -
In her speech, Rose alleged that the media misguided her views about Trump.
— Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 16 July 2024 -
But to start comparing one group's pain to the other is misguided.
— NBC News, 24 Nov. 2019 -
The pair had no idea how misguided these theories were.
— Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2023 -
The Ohio rapper takes a trip to the mountains to reflect on his life and living in a world misguided by social media.
— Rachel George, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2018 -
Some critics of reparations by states say that while the idea is well-intentioned, it can be misguided.
— Maysoon Khan, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2023 -
Whoever was charged with making the day’s allotment of guacamole was also misguided in the amount of salt used.
— Lindsey McClave, The Courier-Journal, 15 Jan. 2020 -
Some Republicans don’t believe the ban goes far enough: Colorado Right to Life calls the measure misguided.
— Saja Hindi, The Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2019 -
It wouldn’t have been misguided to hang on then — if the shares still seemed undervalued or reasonably valued.
— The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 18 June 2023 -
Perhaps the hope of a Hebrew democratic republic was misguided from the start.
— Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024 -
Today, trotting out the bomb to advertise goods might seem misguided at best and exploitative at worst.
— Thomas Bishop, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024 -
And beefing up on special teams is likely misguided in today’s NFL.
— Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023 -
The rise of non-Western powers, such as China, India, and Japan in recent decades, has revealed how misguided such an approach is.
— Valerie Hansen, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022 -
The series is ineffective as a ’70s thriller and misguided as an attempt to cover the same terrain as shows like Billions and Mr. Robot.
— Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2023 -
The focus: politics, misguided self-improvement, and the challenges of life with young kids and aging parents.
— Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024 -
Newsom rejects the criticism as right-wing attacks misguided by a lack of data.
— Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024 -
The Victorian view of the white man’s burden—a moral duty to spread commerce and civilization around the globe, by force if necessary—was misguided.
— Wanjiru Njoya, Orange County Register, 13 Feb. 2024 -
But critics call the move misguided for several reasons.
— Ana Goñi-Lessan, USA TODAY, 5 May 2024 -
But it would be misguided to brave Times Square’s sensory overload only to enjoy the restaurant’s concessions to blander tastes.
— Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2023 -
But he likely would have considered focusing on a small group of model organisms to be misguided, Allen said.
— Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2016 -
An American hero has died and Russians are attempting to misguide, but first: a cartoon about shopping convenience.
— Alex Baker-Whitcomb, Wired, 24 Feb. 2020 -
Still, misguided as some of the content might be, it’s undoubtedly become the baseline for young people online, most notably young hip-hop fans — members of Gen Alpha.
— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023 -
Refrain from letting what others decide mislead or misguide you.
— Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024 -
But those jabs were misguided, spun by malcontents to stoke anger against an iniquitous regime the queen neither created nor controlled.
— Jeffrey Westbrook. Styled By Will Kahn, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2019 -
Asking the foremost tech giants to self-police by virtue of a governing document harkens back to the idealism of the nascent Web and Berners-Lee isn’t misguided in pointing out that his baby needs saving.
— Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2018 -
Attorneys for the men who sued Washington diocese fired back in December, saying the church’s interpretation of the law was misguided.
— Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2024 -
From the get-go in this story, the ups and downs of burgeoning teenage identity tangle with the warmhearted, if sometimes misguided, efforts of family and friends to solve deeply personal issues.
— Jane Yong Kim, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2017 -
Zakaria also pressed Netanyahu on Iran, asking him if his opposition to the nuclear deal was misguided.
— Richard Allen Greene, CNN, 30 Apr. 2023 -
The agonizing realization that help will not be arriving, and that your goal of traversing the Northwest Passage was misguided at best, dangerous at worst.
— refinery29.com, 27 Mar. 2018
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