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adjective

Definition of misguidednext
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as in confused

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as in misleading

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verb

past tense of misguide
as in deceived
to cause to believe what is untrue we were misguided by the flashy advertisements for what turned out to be pretty lousy pizza

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Recent Examples of misguided
Adjective
Indeed, the previous template for summer movie success — massive budget for IP that the whole world has heard of, traditional marketing and then cross your fingers — felt stale and misguided at times. — Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026 With antisemitism at crisis levels, the Met honoring John Galliano at this moment was misguided, and even Galliano ultimately recognized what the Met should have done from the start. — Denise Petski, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2026
Verb
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 And, as scripted by Craig Mazin (The Last of Us), their dialogue is both mildly amusing and intriguingly philosophical, if at times misguided. — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for misguided
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misguided
  1. confused
  2. misleading
  3. deceived
  4. misinformed
  5. unreasoned
  6. tricked
  7. erroneous
  8. irrational
Adjective
  • The event was somewhat shambolic, with confused chefs stopping for selfies with Bibendum as the host tried to move things along.
    — Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The adoption of this policy came very late in the summer and after a more tentative earlier policy that mainly confused educators and parents.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of confused
Adjective
  • A matter of distance and brightness The stars that compose the Triangle — Vega, Altair, and Deneb — lie at very unequal distances from us, so their apparent brightness can give a misleading impression of their true luminosity.
    — Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Publishers don’t want irrelevant or misleading ads to appear on their media sources.
    — Roman Vrublivskyi, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of misleading
Verb
  • Furious at having been deceived her whole life, Kylie hops on the next plane to the Owens’ ancestral home in England with the intent of breaking the curse once and for all.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Now some say the operation has left them feeling deceived and questioning whether the White House considered their safety.
    — Scott Nover, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of deceived
Adjective
  • There are still those who claim that news about the global whiskey market slump is misinformed or not truly representative of the bigger picture.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Ohtani's specific case, which started the misinformed outrage over deferrals, is even less controversial.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of misinformed
Adjective
  • In each case, the actual right to your body is deferred to some third party, either the paternalists, the hypothetical children, or unreasoned authority.
    — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 20 June 2011
Definition of unreasoned
Verb
  • Because you can get tricked very quickly into thinking that acting is all about me.
    — David Katz, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
  • In the past couple of years, deepfakes have already tricked large firms like Arup into wiring $25 million to scammers.
    — Allyson Kapin, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of tricked
Adjective
  • If operations are fragmented, AI simply helps to produce inconsistent and erroneous work faster.
    — Farzana Abdulhusein, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The lawsuit alleges that South Dakota’s rollout of the proof-of-citizenship requirement has disqualified eligible voters over erroneous minutiae and failed to offer them a realistic shot at fixing problems with their registration application.
    — John Hult, States Newsroom, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of erroneous
Adjective
  • So the strongest performers tend to resist hardest, and their response is not irrational.
    — Pankaj Prasoon, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • But the question remained unsolved for polygons with irrational angles.
    — Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of irrational

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“Misguided.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misguided. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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