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
• As the spring progressed, the idea that Mayer would remain on the board at No. 4 started to feel misguided.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2021
• That seems like a misguided and selfish reason to have kids.
  — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 3 Nov. 2024
• That misguided perspective washed away the first time Couch’s feet touched the hardwood.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2024
• This is Slovenia’s first time in the Olympics, but with Doncic leading the way, medal talk doesn’t seem misguided.
  — Tim Reynolds, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 July 2021
• 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
• But many times, while his intent is good, his ideas are misguided.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• 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
• For Chen, that kind of talk is indicative of the misguided notion that meme stocks are a surefire get-rich-quick scheme.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 24 June 2021
• This is part of the job of an art advisor, guiding the client away from making a misguided purchase.
  — Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 20 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Forget your misguided belief that a pixel is one of those tiny squares on your screen.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
• 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
• This is misguided, but in their defense, the story of the Grasshopper is the story of people wrestling with that sweetness for more than 100 years.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 26 Oct. 2024
• But their belief that stronger unions would solve the party’s problems is misguided.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
• There are still a shocking number of deluded and misguided folks out there who believe Trump won in 2020.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024