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View synonyms for misguided

misguided

[ mis-gahy-did ]

adjective

  1. misled; mistaken:

    Their naive actions were a misguided attempt to help poor people.



misguided

/ ˌmɪsˈɡaɪdɪd /

adjective

  1. foolish or unreasonable, esp in action or behaviour
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌmisˈguidedly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • mis·guided·ly adverb
  • mis·guided·ness noun
  • unmis·guided adjective
  • unmis·guided·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of misguided1

First recorded in 1480–90; misguide + -ed 2
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Example Sentences

Surveys indicate that a growing number of Americans view partisan opponents not only as misguided but also as agents of evil.

From Time

Without a significant investment in streets, sidewalks and traffic flow solutions, residents in our core communities will once again suffer most from noble but misguided attempts to increase our housing supply and put downward pressure on rents.

Bringing the dog to the scene of the crime to enact the punishment is common — and is an especially misguided tactic.

People who think that we’re done sorting it out are misguided in one way or another.

The solution to the resentment some fans are feeling probably isn’t a misguided form of player-club loyalty on the part of the Rays.

Perhaps that presumption was misguided, but more on that later.

Sweden explores new frontiers in our misguided, foolish, pointless obsession with rating and censoring entertainment.

It was the scene that launched a thousand HBO subscriptions—and one misguided, mammary-centric New Yorker think piece.

First there are those who became agnostics, and who think Christians are misguided at best.

Somehow I think the outrage should be at what happened there, not at this somewhat misguided girl.

But, glad as was the schemer, his delight and sense of freedom were much inferior to those of his misguided and unlucky partner.

Dangerfield must have been expecting something to go crossways in Phœnix and had some of his misguided friends watching McKibben.

He watched over and protected the misguided woman, consenting to act as godfather to the child she had by Lousteau.

The misguided nobleman was taken napping in a dry ditch, with the George and 200 guineas in his pocket.

Are the raving words, the wicked thoughts of a misguided, vicious woman to be believed by those who hear them?

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