MISGUIDEDLY Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

misguidedly

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as in erroneously

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Recent Examples of misguidedly In both projects, she was tasked not only with playing the same person from young adulthood to maturity, but also with bringing new dimension to a literary character whom readers have misguidedly despised for decades. — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 25 Sep. 2026

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The officer was responding to a mental health crisis call, involving what was erroneously reported as fireworks but turned out to be gunfire, authorities said.

— Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2026
The certification for this device was granted erroneously and has been set aside by the FCC and removed from our public database.

— Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of erroneously

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That’s given enrollees little time to react, including to respond if the state was mistakenly ending their coverage.

— Phil Galewitz, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2026
The painting was mistakenly attributed to Carel Fabritius in 1904 by an American dealer and sold for $160 (equivalent to about $6,000 today).

— News Desk, Artforum, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of mistakenly

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Opposing players could have their own grievances as well if they were found to have wrongly missed out on performance bonuses.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2026
The woman's attorneys argued that the decision wrongly gives school officials wide latitude to squelch political speech based on their personal ideas of what is vulgar.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of wrongly

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The new policy on Flock cameras comes months after the Police Department disclosed that an internal audit of its ALPR camera network showed it was improperly accessed by outside agencies over the past year.

— Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
When an attacker moves laterally through a network undetected, investigators often examine whether monitoring capabilities were absent, improperly configured or ignored after generating alerts.

— Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of improperly

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Many Montanans who were financially eligible lost Medicaid coverage for technical reasons, such as incorrectly filling out paperwork — roughly 87,000, according to state data from two years ago.

— Aaron Bolton, NPR, 30 Sep. 2026
An earlier version of this story incorrectly named the horse ridden by Avery Kucan.

— Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of incorrectly

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Keep in mind, though, that software often inaccurately depicts the actuation points of keyboards, albeit by amounts that are hard to notice, according to RTINGs’ testing).

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026
Blanche said lawmakers who oppose election monitors are reacting inaccurately.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of inaccurately

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OpenAI’s artificial intelligence agents inappropriately accessed sites for the Departments of Commerce and Education.

— Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2026
Amy Stilling Tanner claims her firing in April came in retaliation for sharing a surveillance video showing another employee acting inappropriately toward a student.

— Eric Peterson, Chicago Tribune, 23 Sep. 2026

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