misguidedly

adverb

as in erroneously

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misguidedly
  1. erroneously
  2. mistakenly
  3. wrongly
  4. improperly
  5. incorrectly
  6. inaccurately
  7. inappropriately
  8. pointlessly
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  • Jimmy Coe, for example, said in an email to the larger airport that during his visit to Orlando in 2022, his taxi driver erroneously drove him to the Orlando airport instead of the Sanford airport where his Allegiant flight was departing.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Police also dispelled misinformation that had been circulating online about the suspect’s identity, saying that some social media posts had erroneously identified a different individual as the suspect.
    — Chantelle Lee, Time, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of erroneously
Adverb
  • In January, Trooper Joshua Fitzgerald mistakenly rammed the wrong vehicle during a pursuit on Interstate 630 in Little Rock.
    — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Consider a scenario in which an AI agent mistakenly updates thousands of customer records or pushes inaccurate data into multiple business systems.
    — Rick Vanover, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of mistakenly
Adverb
  • Knox returned to the United States in 2011, after being freed by the appeals court in Perugia, and has since established herself as a global campaigner for the wrongly convicted.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Prosecutors secured a prison sentence for Lopez for alleged fraud, but in the appeals process, a judge ruled that she had been wrongly convicted.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of wrongly
Adverb
  • Tech giant Meta revealed Wednesday that one of its artificial intelligence models hacked another organization during testing, the third time in recent weeks that an AI model has improperly accessed a third-party company.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The letter from the state Attorney General’s Office asserts that Menlo Park improperly changed its reasons for denying a streamlined approval process for the residential portion of the project.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of improperly
Adverb
  • However, batteries can pose a secret hazard when they’re charged incorrectly.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Aug. 2026
  • But if the work was rushed, incomplete or performed incorrectly, the initial savings can quickly disappear.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Definition of incorrectly
Adverb
  • This discrepancy means standard evaluations may inaccurately portray an AI's safety and efficacy.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
  • The designation, therefore, is inaccurately applied to the empire before the time of the Hohenstaufen.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 July 2026
Definition of inaccurately
Adverb
  • Axios first reported allegations in May about Edwards allegedly having behaved inappropriately toward his young female staff.
    — Jeff Ballou, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Police in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, released surveillance video of a suspect accused of inappropriately touching a 12-year-old girl inside a Dollar Tree store Monday afternoon.
    — Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of inappropriately
Adverb
  • Don’t be pointlessly inscrutable.
    — Kim Scott, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
  • But Senate Democrats in recent months have perfected the strategy of pointlessly running this tactic into the ground.
    — Las Vegas Review-Journal, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2026
Definition of pointlessly
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