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misguided

(= ill-conceived) poorly conceived or thought out an ill-conceived plan to take over the company (= mistaken) wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment well-meaning but misguided teachers a mistaken belief mistaken identity

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She was misguided.
The Church is merciful. It always welcomes the misguided lamb.
That misguided little man in the long overcoat undoubtedly believed he was acting on patriotic principles.
Misguided young man.
Some poor, misguided female no doubt.
Three poor, misguided females to be exact.
They misguided themselves.
Misguided maybe, like wayward children.
Never was fighting so bitter as between those that were imprisoned. and the guards so misguided. that only the urge to kill their less fortunate fellows remained.
That wretched, misguided fellow not one of my flock, sir.
In his misguided effort to eliminate corruption in the Indian Bureau it was Mr. Schurz who had brought in the Quakers.
Well, then I suppose it was the nefarious activities of the wretched Compton and his misguided lads that Mr. Ffolly-Hardwicke found out.
Because of misguided loyalty, Maria will not divulge the name of her former love.
They may be naive and misguided but, by Jove, they're glorious.
It always welcomes the misguided lamb.
For your misguided people as well as my own!
Crimes against the Third Reich, misguided efforts to wreck our inevitable victory.
Not the warpath. Misguided maybe, like wayward children.
Your old China is as dead as your ancestors. and your new China. is as misguided as that pompous, miserable old elder of yours.
Next week, an exceptionally fine actor named theodore bikel portrays a misguided kook who fancies himself some kind of guardian of law and order.
Because of misguided loyalty Maria will not divulge the name of her former love and he is so jealous he will kill rather than lose her.
Let's just say a misguided friend.
Oh, yes, I did promise the old man that I would empty them of those misguided patriots who have for so long opposed me.
I want to ask you, sir-- no, I want to beg you-- not to be too tough on those poor, misguided men.
They're a misguided, unhappy people.
They're a misguided nation.
It occurs to me that Clement may have just been misguided.
It is misguided loyalty to resist any further.
You are misguided in your search.
Oh, Lord, look down in mercy on this, our misguided brother.
Or they're showing a misguided loyalty to their Draconian masters.
Unlike that cockney git whose ulterior motive poor, innocent, misguided child that you are.
The poor sods have been misguided by English radio.
He's misguided.
You've never misguided me.
Lord President, my companion acted from misguided loyalty.
It was very fascinating misguided though it was.
But, Leo, your whole approach, it's misguided.
Later, I began to understand how misguided those feelings were. and yet, somehow they have remained a part of me.
There are still plenty of misguided Bajorans who want to go it alone.
He's as misguided as you are.

News and current affairs

All forms of leftist ideology - indeed, everything that smacked of collective idealism - came to be viewed as misguided utopianism that could lead only to the Gulag.
This claim was hugely misguided.
Afghanistan can thus rightly be seen as the first victim of the administration's misguided strategy.
All trading schemes not based on this hypothesis were labeled as either misguided or outright frauds.
Centering attention on reactivation makes clear why the focus on IMF credits is misguided.
If the IMF imposes fiscal contraction or a misguided strategy for restructuring the financial sector (as it did in Indonesia), then the economy will be weakened and this will lead to a further erosion of confidence.
Such attempts at blame-shifting are misguided: one can understand the default as the consequence of economic mistakes made over a decade.
Moreover, in choosing to flatter the UK's misguided policy, the Fund has confirmed its deference to its major shareholders.
Evo Morales, the leader of the opposition and of the coca-leaf growers, may be an honest, if misguided, democratic leader, but are his followers untainted by authoritarian desires?
This, too, strikes me as misguided.
Still, they do have aspects of bubbles: collectivization was indeed a plan for prosperity with a contagion of popular excitement, however misguided it looks in retrospect.
Politicians understandably want to deflect attention from their own misguided policies.
The UN Environment Program (UNEP) is embarked on a misguided campaign to ban the pesticide DDT under its Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Framework Convention.
Sometimes - its critics will say often - the advice provided by the IMF and World Bank is misguided.
But the real problem stems from another form of contagion: bad ideas move easily across borders, and misguided economic notions on both sides of the Atlantic have been reinforcing each other.
That has left the government locked into a reactive and often misguided approach to unexpected problems.
But this interpretation of the Great Depression, common though it is, is misguided.
But there is also a tendency, not only in China, to dismiss such calls for democracy as irrelevant, even misguided.
Their focus on inhibiting India seems particularly misguided, given that China's core interests (Tibet, Taiwan, and the heartland of the Chinese mainland) are far beyond the reach of most of India's military capabilities.
The belief that stability can be achieved with technocratic rules, regulations, and sanctioning mechanisms alone in a eurozone whose economies are diverging will prove to be misguided.
More problematic, he has occasionally dissented publicly from Leung's various misguided policies.

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