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misguided

adjective

mis·​guid·​ed (ˌ)mis-ˈgī-dəd How to pronounce misguided (audio)
: led or prompted by wrong or inappropriate motives or ideals
well-meaning but misguided do-gooders
misguidedly adverb
misguidedness noun

Example Sentences

She's been getting a lot of bad advice from misguided friends. He blames the crisis on the government's misguided economic policies. a misguided attempt to help
Recent Examples on the Web 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 Yet more than a third of the voters wanted to opt out of the two-party duopoly in the misguided belief that an overconfident billionaire could save the nation. Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 27 June 2022 Underlying each of these bleak truths appears to be the same, misguided belief: that government support for parents is at odds with parents being responsible for their kids. Kendra Hurley, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022 Some of these misguided efforts at adaptation include building sea walls in order to continue developing low-lying coasts or investing in short-term, reactive ways to cope with extreme weather events, rather than more holistic, proactive approaches. NBC News, 28 Feb. 2022 These are the No One Cares Games as far as boxing is concerned, remnants of the misguided efforts to include the likes of Manny Pacquiao in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics creating fields here that are a strange mishmash of pros and amateurs. Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2021 Making surface-level assumptions about customers based on only a few factors can lead to misguided personalization efforts that miss the mark and are potentially offensive. Blake Morgan, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021 The first step toward safe, effective, and consistent shoulder training is avoiding these four misguided workout myths. Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 1 Sep. 2022 This was a misguided idea: our basketball courts are enjoyed by people of many cultures and various ages, and deserve to be protected. The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1500, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of misguided was in 1500

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