misguide
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- misguidance noun
- misguider noun
Etymology
Origin of misguide
1325–75; mis- 1 + guide; replacing Middle English misgien; guy 2
Example Sentences
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“In the face of a mounting homelessness crisis, it’s misguided for the City to continue pouring our scarce resources into outside counsel instead of housing the most vulnerable Angelenos,” Rodriguez said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times
Policymakers’ responses to these realities are misguided on all major fronts.
From Barron's
About that — let’s get into his misguided declaration of love at the end of Part I. You read the books, you knew it was coming.
From Los Angeles Times
Ben says most books have mainstream society’s misguided ideas about how a life should be lived written right into the fabric of their stories.
From Literature
What Thompson-Hernández’s art so easily dispels, no matter the genre it finds a home in, are all the knotty, misguided and trite representations of otherness in our contemporary world.
From Los Angeles Times
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