misguided; misguiding; misguides
: to lead astray : misdirect
prejudice misguides our minds
misguider
noun
Examples of misguide in a Sentence
we were misguided by the flashy advertisements for what turned out to be pretty lousy pizza
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While the number of outages appeared to decline, Spotify posted on social media that rumors of a hack were misguided.
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David Matthews, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
Environmental activists said efforts to revive coal were misguided.
—Ivan Penn, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
How misguided some men’s searching for community became evident to Vera Papisova, a journalist who spent a year dating far-right men for a story for Cosmopolitan magazine, when one man brought her to what was ostensibly a gathering of neo-Nazis on a second date.
—Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
Yet just as past bouts of defeatism were misguided, so is today’s triumphalism, which risks dangerously underestimating both the latent and actual power of the only competitor in a century whose GDP has surpassed 70 percent of that of the United States.
—Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2025
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David Matthews, New York Daily News, 16 Apr. 2025
Environmental activists said efforts to revive coal were misguided.
—Ivan Penn, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
How misguided some men’s searching for community became evident to Vera Papisova, a journalist who spent a year dating far-right men for a story for Cosmopolitan magazine, when one man brought her to what was ostensibly a gathering of neo-Nazis on a second date.
—Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
Yet just as past bouts of defeatism were misguided, so is today’s triumphalism, which risks dangerously underestimating both the latent and actual power of the only competitor in a century whose GDP has surpassed 70 percent of that of the United States.
—Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2025
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“Misguide.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misguide. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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