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.
• And that the worst and most misguided among us can change for the better.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 11 June 2024
• But many times, while his intent is good, his ideas are misguided.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• But whew—these young men have some deeply misguided notions about the pad.
  — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 1 July 2020
• In our opinion, the move to shake up drug pricing is misguided.
  — Steven Dudash, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
• Back then, the idea of improving my own brain seemed like a misguided quest.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 5 Jan. 2021
• Many young people opt for their own strategies, some of which are misguided.
  — Ysabelle Kempe, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2019
• And that’s, for me, a very misguided way to approach writing.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2025
• Bivens thinks the stigma is misguided.
  — Jeff Kauflin, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• Forget your misguided belief that a pixel is one of those tiny squares on your screen.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
• To hug for the sake of hugging is as frantic and misguided as punching strangers in the face.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2022
• But the rush to make sense of the shooting based on these messages and symbols is misguided.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
• Doctors say that kind of thinking is misguided and part of the problem.
  — Lindsey Tanner, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Jan. 2022
• Yet a misguided Hail Mary can tank those margins and cost you for years.
  — Brody Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
• This idea that this election is a choice between progress and the status quo is misguided.
  — Letters To The Editor, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2026
• While the new model is a big deal, the concern is somewhat misguided.
  — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 17 July 2026
• Counting on him to be one of your leading scorers is misguided.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2026
• About as misguided as keeping a reporter outside the door for three weeks.
  — Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2025
• But misguided buyers and sellers too often turn their noses up at these loans.
  — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026
• There was just so much misguided anger out there, and then people were just taking it out on each other.
  — Justin Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• But their belief that stronger unions would solve the party’s problems is misguided.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
• My son is placing his misguided logic on me and is blaming me for not wanting to see him.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 9 Nov. 2021
• Perhaps one of them felt compelled to do these acts in a misguided attempt to defend me.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2022
• Boone’s belief was not misguided.
  — Chris Kirschner, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
• Burdette said the men who threw him in the well had a misguided idea of getting ransom from his father.
  — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 4 Jan. 2022
• Now, 17 months in, that thinking seems to have been somewhat misguided.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 21 June 2022
• In this case, the less our young people had heard about this misguided young man from Naperville, the better.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
• But the mullahs and their enablers intend to bring about evil out of a misguided sense of love of country.
  — Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2025
• The point their fingers at others, as if that gives them an excuse for their misguided support.
  — Carolyn Cavecche, Oc Register, 22 Nov. 2025