How to Use misguide in a Sentence

misguide

verb
  • As long as those little black squares are there, that hope will be misguided.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2025
  • But to start comparing one group's pain to the other is misguided.
    NBC News, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Any dismissal of the past as irrelevant to the present is misguided at best.
    Aaron Kupchik, TIME, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Second, the props and disguises were misguided for a space as large as the Shed.
    Jeremy Yudkin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2023
  • But my recent research suggests that this belief would be misguided.
    George E. Mitchell, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Some critics of reparations by states say that while the idea is well-intentioned, it can be misguided.
    Maysoon Khan, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2023
  • Refrain from letting what others decide mislead or misguide you.
    Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • So perhaps, maybe, Michelle is being misguided.
    Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Aug. 2025
  • It would have been misguided to paint himself as the bold employee held back by the ownership’s shackles.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 16 May 2026
  • Today, trotting out the bomb to advertise goods might seem misguided at best and exploitative at worst.
    Thomas Bishop, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024
  • It wouldn’t have been misguided to hang on then — if the shares still seemed undervalued or reasonably valued.
    The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 18 June 2023
  • But some of these issues have been multiple-year issues, so blaming it on this year’s roster would be misguided.
    Omar Kelly november 7, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Newsom rejects the criticism as right-wing attacks misguided by a lack of data.
    Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Taking the success of the offensive line last season for granted would be misguided.
    Dan Duggan, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Without this chance encounter, she’d have been misguided forever.
    Barry Levitt, Time, 19 June 2026
  • But is their confidence misguided?
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
  • Whoever was charged with making the day’s allotment of guacamole was also misguided in the amount of salt used.
    Lindsey McClave, The Courier-Journal, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The Ohio rapper takes a trip to the mountains to reflect on his life and living in a world misguided by social media.
    Rachel George, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Chau, while misguided, was a young man who was looking for purpose and connection amid the uncertainties of the world.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2025
  • An Adams spokesman believes press coverage of Adams’s remarks has been misguided.
    Ross O'Keefe, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Lane, though dangerously misguided, was ahead of time in recognizing the power of the gut.
    Elsa Richardson, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The situation in Ukraine has shown that such optimism was misguided.
    Mick Ryan, Foreign Affairs, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Perhaps the hope of a Hebrew democratic republic was misguided from the start.
    Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
  • And beefing up on special teams is likely misguided in today’s NFL.
    Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2023
  • This approach to foreign policy was misguided even at the peak of American power.
    Jennifer Lind, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
  • But those jabs were misguided, spun by malcontents to stoke anger against an iniquitous regime the queen neither created nor controlled.
    Jeffrey Westbrook. Styled By Will Kahn, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Many nutrition experts across the aisle praised the emphasis on eating whole foods, but some found other messaging misguided.
    Sara Moniuszko, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Renter advocates call the original language of Stern’s current bill misguided.
    Calmatters, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Before the game, Spoelstra said criticism of Rozier was misguided.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The idea that teens as young as 14 will be able to replace the labor of migrant workers, which is often difficult and dangerous, is misguided at best.
    Georgia Christakis, Sun Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025

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