misguided

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Adjective

misguided (comparative more misguided, superlative most misguided)

  1. Ill-conceived or not thought through.
    • 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 September 2013:
      I believe in freedom of movement and view the current government’s restrictive attitude as both socially and economically misguided. Yet I fear that a special London policy will only exacerbate existing divisions.
  2. Misled or mistaken.
  3. Lacking proper guidance.
    • 2001, “Poor Misguided Fool”, in Love Is Here, performed by Starsailor:
      You're just a poor misguided fool
      Who thinks they know what I should do
      A line for me and a line for you
      I lose my right to a point of view.
    • 2024 May 11, John Thornhill, quoting Martin Luther King Jr, “More than human?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 8:
      Martin Luther King Jr's 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on the need for moral intervention should be taped to every tech CEO's wall: “When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men.”

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misguided

  1. simple past and past participle of misguide
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