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as in misleading
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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
Emma Bowman,
NPR,
19 June 2026
Others, however, who seek to position themselves in opposition, are deemed either manipulated, misguided, or acting on behalf of particular interests, and are therefore considered a matter for the government to address.
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Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
18 June 2026
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Apr. 2026
But my recent research suggests that this belief would be misguided.
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George E. Mitchell,
The Conversation,
3 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
Prosecutors made Luddites out to be misguided vandals, tech writer Merchant says.
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Emma Bowman,
NPR,
19 June 2026
Others, however, who seek to position themselves in opposition, are deemed either manipulated, misguided, or acting on behalf of particular interests, and are therefore considered a matter for the government to address.
—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
18 June 2026
Verb
And, as scripted by Craig Mazin (The Last of Us), their dialogue is both mildly amusing and intriguingly philosophical, if at times misguided.
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Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Apr. 2026
But my recent research suggests that this belief would be misguided.
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George E. Mitchell,
The Conversation,
3 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misguided
Adjective
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But then, the writer himself might get confused about which is which.
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For example, a lot of fans were a bit confused on Friday after watching Miguel Almiron be sent off in the first half of Paraguay’s win against Turkey.
Adjective
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This headline is so misleading.
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Pretending that’s not going to happen is misleading and wrong.
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Some people in Israel say Netanyahu, in a way, deceived Trump.
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One is to emphasize Iago—the guileful, insinuating convincingness of this malicious supervillain, who works on Othello to the point where any reasonable man would be deceived and fooled and worked into a rage that can lead to such a catastrophe.
Adjective
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There are reports of suicide from all of these enormous hormonal fluctuations, and yet women are left in the dark and misinformed about what to expect.
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Why the plea deal was delayed The plea deal was delayed last week after Jackson had an outburst in court when his family was misinformed about the hearing time.
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In each case, the actual right to your body is deferred to some third party, either the paternalists, the hypothetical children, or unreasoned authority.
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While the war ended years before, the hostility spread from the stands — with skirmishes among supporters — into the field, when Maradona tricked the referee and the world with the World Cup’s most infamous goal, punching the ball into the net with his fist above England’s goalie Peter Shilton.
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The sample that tricked the most people came from a robot Bram Stoker.
Adjective
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Although Rodman’s research shows that generative AI can help diagnose rare diseases or make sense of unusual symptoms, a randomized trial that was published in NEJM AI just the week before found that intentionally erroneous output from an AI model can easily lead doctors astray.
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The good news is, though, that while an erroneous freeze can cause big trouble with your bills, it can usually be reversed.
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Economist Hyman Minsky spent his career explaining how irrational behavior produces fragility and instability in capitalist systems.
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McClanahan has been close enough to his usual production, but without an irrational need for perfection.
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“Misguided.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misguided. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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