How to Use misguided in a Sentence

misguided

adjective

• She's been getting a lot of bad advice from misguided friends.
• He blames the crisis on the government's misguided economic policies.
• And that the worst and most misguided among us can change for the better.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 11 June 2024
• To hug for the sake of hugging is as frantic and misguided as punching strangers in the face.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2022
• Gone are the misguided Asian jokes, the sizeism slander, the ableist language and the whole pedophilia plot.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• There was the misguided decision not to run the ball on the goal line, costing the Patriots 4 points.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
• Doctors say that kind of thinking is misguided and part of the problem.
  — Lindsey Tanner, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2022
• That misguided perspective washed away the first time Couch’s feet touched the hardwood.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2024
• The misguided dismissal of the Southeastern U.S. that has arisen from the death of Roe has come from several places.
  — Becca Andrews, ELLE, 17 Nov. 2022
• The first version of the song, recorded by Don Fardon in 1968, was sadly misguided and racist.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 14 Dec. 2021
• Burdette said the men who threw him in the well had a misguided idea of getting ransom from his father.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 4 Jan. 2022
• There’s a misguided idea that edgy comedy and the Muslim faith don’t mix.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024
• Now, 17 months in, that thinking seems to have been somewhat misguided.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 21 June 2022
• Instead, McCourty dived to pick off the misguided mallard at the Jets 40.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
• But the truth behind this misguided effort is clearly exposed by the provisions of the bill and the current law.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
• Perhaps one of them felt compelled to do these acts in a misguided attempt to defend me.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
• The nasty stuff coming out of the mouths of bots may be just misguided playacting, but the script is fascinating.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
• Kentucky helped ignite it on the game’s first play, a misguided attempt at a reverse.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 10 Oct. 2022
• Just look at a similarly misguided law called the Durbin Amendment that passed more than a decade ago.
  — Richard Hunt, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
• That's where misguided variations like the behind the neck pullup come into play.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 14 Sep. 2022
• But their belief that stronger unions would solve the party’s problems is misguided.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
• My son is placing his misguided logic on me and is blaming me for not wanting to see him.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Nov. 2021
• Last year Harry Styles was pelted in the eye after a misguided fan tossed Skittles candy at the stage.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023
• His decisions on the athletic front, on the other hand, have been more than a tad misguided.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• The misguided off-roader received a fine from the State Parks service and managed to move their truck off the beach after deflating the tires.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
• The misguided belief that disfigurement was a fate worse than death was still alive and well during the First World War.
  — Lindsey Fitzharris, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2022
• This is why the fixation on civic activism is so misguided.
  — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• But Terplan says this line of thinking is deeply misguided.
  — Sara Novak, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
• Any of the above would be grounds for dismissal, which makes their grievances with Kaplan and Audacy a bit misguided.
  — Shirley Halperin, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022
• We’re blessed with vibrant neighborhoods full of character that should be strengthened, not undermined by misguided public policies.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024