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Vinony

misguided

adjective

  1. led or prompted by wrong or inappropriate motives or ideals
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /mɪsˈɡaɪdɪd/

adj

  1. Ill-conceived or not thought through.

    “I believe in freedom of movement and view the current government’s restrictive attitude as both socially and economically misguided. Yet I fear that a special London policy will only exacerbate existing divisions.”

  2. Misled or mistaken.
  3. Lacking proper guidance.

    “You're just a poor misguided fool Who thinks they know what I should do A line for me and a line for you I lose my right to a point of view.”

    “Martin Luther King Jr's 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on the need for moral intervention should be taped to every tech CEO's wall: “When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men.””

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of misguide