misguided
adjective
mis·guid·ed
(ˌ)mis-ˈgī-dəd 
: led or prompted by wrong or inappropriate motives or ideals
well-meaning but misguided do-gooders
Examples of misguided in a Sentence
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
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But the mullahs and their enablers intend to bring about evil out of a misguided sense of love of country.
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Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2025
Some users viewed the scene with spiritual sympathy, while others saw it as misguided or even environmentally irresponsible.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 July 2025
So Lemkin's attempts to communicate with the AI model—asking it to respect code freezes or verify its actions—were fundamentally misguided.
—ArsTechnica, 24 July 2025
Of course, that kind of misguided thinking was not altogether new.
—Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2025
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Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2025
Some users viewed the scene with spiritual sympathy, while others saw it as misguided or even environmentally irresponsible.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 July 2025
So Lemkin's attempts to communicate with the AI model—asking it to respect code freezes or verify its actions—were fundamentally misguided.
—ArsTechnica, 24 July 2025
Of course, that kind of misguided thinking was not altogether new.
—Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 11 July 2025
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“Misguided.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misguided. Accessed 1 Aug. 2025.
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