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.
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And that the worst and most misguided among us can change for the better.
—Oliver Darcy, CNN, 11 June 2024
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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
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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
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That misguided perspective washed away the first time Couch’s feet touched the hardwood.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2024
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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
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Instead, McCourty dived to pick off the misguided mallard at the Jets 40.
—Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
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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
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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
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Kentucky helped ignite it on the game’s first play, a misguided attempt at a reverse.
—Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 10 Oct. 2022
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Just look at a similarly misguided law called the Durbin Amendment that passed more than a decade ago.
—Richard Hunt, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
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That's where misguided variations like the behind the neck pullup come into play.
—Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 14 Sep. 2022
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But their belief that stronger unions would solve the party’s problems is misguided.
—Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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This is why the fixation on civic activism is so misguided.
—Time, 12 Jan. 2023
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But Terplan says this line of thinking is deeply misguided.
—Sara Novak, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
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At best, these are misguided attempts to juice the poster’s social media presence.
—WIRED, 28 July 2023
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But his answer that was most misguided came when he was asked if country music had a race problem.
—Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2023
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From Humphrey’s point of view, these attitudes are misguided.
—Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
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And there are those who say ESG is misguided–or even value-destroying.
—Jeff Levinson, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
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Through the lens of your work, why is this kind of English-only approach in education a misguided one?
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
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Many are quick to blame the misguided marketing campaign.
—Mara Reinstein, Rolling Stone, 30 July 2024
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This kind of misguided talk is the one consistent thread in my reporting on who Holmes really is.
—Amy Chozick, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
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The calories are the biggest count on the nutrition label, and all of the dictums from the USDA over the last few decades, many people feel very misguided to cut fat, to not worry about carbs.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 May 2024
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Don’t give me the misplaced, and misguided arguments about the Second Amendment either.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 14 Mar. 2023
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So far, the Alexander case has been, if not quite a sleeper, not splashy front-page news, perhaps because of a misguided sense of its political stakes.
—Michael Li, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
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By 1986, the junta’s brutality had lost its support, but the Communists’ armed response to regime violence seemed misguided to many.
—Ruth Ben-Ghiat, The Conversation, 25 July 2024
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