misguide
verb (used with object)
to guide wrongly; misdirect.
misguidance
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a word derived from
misguide.
Example Sentences
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Leana S. Wen’s Jan. 15 op-ed drew from selected data and might have provided serious misguidance.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023
The widespread tendency to put up plastic “cascades from the original misguidance on droplets,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2021
So forget the metrics misguidance for a moment.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2018
Many great business writers have taken on the daunting questions and challenges that so often turn philanthropic and entrepreneurial endeavors into misguidance and waste.
From Forbes ● Sep. 11, 2012
Ideas and beliefs left by his fathers and ancestors as a heritage will not suffice, for adherence to these are but imitations, and imitations have ever been a cause of disappointment and misguidance.
From The Promulgation of Universal Peace by `Abdu'l-Bahá
