(v. t.) To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.
(n.) Misguidance; error.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and that a misguided strategy could damage rather than help Israel's victims.
(2) If so, it’s a misguided belief, with the digital age disrupting politics as it does so many other areas of life.
(3) "Following a meeting with the Secretary of State Ed Davey today, we are considering our position as clearly the challenge for us and the entire solar industry in the UK is within the detail of the CFD regime itself; which solar is now being forced into and more specifically, how this system is going to be implemented for solar; which clearly has different considerations to other technologies.” Updated at 5.53pm BST 5.48pm BST My verdict Our question today was probably misguided.
(4) I think if anyone was expecting a turnaround [so soon] that was misguided.
(5) Some providers, including both schools and colleges, misguidedly retain learners in unsuitable provision or try to duplicate provision in schools that is better delivered in further education colleges or work-based learning providers."
(6) "The American people themselves have been put at risk by these actions that I believe are arrogant, misguided and ultimately not helpful in any way," he said.
(7) Cubism as practised by Picasso and Braque they thought courageous, up to a point, but misguided.
(8) Thus alternative medicine may become a disadvantage, a danger for science (lavished means) and society (misguidance of patients).
(9) Everything he said was misguided – and he demonised us.
(10) You are now smarter than the various female celebrities and misguided women who pay for ridiculous treatments with names like "blood transfusion facials" and "gold facials" and God knows what else.
(11) Erroneous presumptions about children's reactions to pain have misguided professionals' management of this issue.
(12) Their proposed EO really I think was too simplistic and misguided because it was identifying one’s nationality as being responsible for a potential terrorist act,” Brennan said.
(13) Some will look back at that age and see either misguided paternalism or rank naivety.
(14) It was a misguided action by an unauthorised individual that should never have occurred,” John Rogers, executive general manager, southern Pacific, of Wilson Security, told the inquiry.
(15) More recently, fanned by misguided but vigorous religious doctrine, the situation has changed dramatically.
(16) Attempts to explain infantile autism in terms of just one underlying neurological or psychological deficit may be misguided.
(17) Misguided emphasis on the most extreme and photogenic radical right groups also plays out in Hungary.
(18) The Labour leader said he would never disparage David Cameron in the same way, even though he believes the prime minister's policies are "profoundly misguided".
(19) This is a misguided and poorly targeted way to help people with low skills,” he said.
(20) This should be founded on the mutual responsibility of those involved and no longer on a misguided idea of aid.
Misinform
Definition:
(v. t.) To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.
(v. i.) To give untrue information; (with against) to calumniate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some international coverage of the outbreak was accused of misinforming western readers.
(2) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.
(3) The subjects' responses revealed their lack of information as well as a great deal of misinformation.
(4) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
(5) Twenty of the girls knew how conception occurs and 24 knew about modern methods of contraception, although none was used; many of them were misinformed.
(6) Nutrition misinformation wastes billions of dollars every year but the greatest harm occurs when needed medical intervention is delayed or ignored.
(7) The most important finding was the considerable misinformation about and noncompliance with malaria prophylaxis.
(8) A total of 376 (25.1%) questionnaires were filled out incorrectly and 63 of these (16.8%) had major misinformation about medical history.
(9) Their refusal to condemn him reinforces myths and misinformation about rape – they don't seem to understand that the law is very clear that if someone is too drunk or otherwise incapacitated to consent, it is rape."
(10) Yet by reassuring the public that things aren't too bad, Monbiot and others at best misinform, and at worst misrepresent or distort, the scientific evidence of the harmful effects of radiation exposure – and they play a predictable shoot-the-messenger game in the process.
(11) He acknowledged there had been "failures" and that there was "misinformation and misunderstanding" surrounding the bill.
(12) Nutrition knowledge and misinformation, supplement use, and sources of nutrition information were also investigated.
(13) "As global action on climate change deepens, propaganda aimed at misinforming the public about climate change, and so blunting any action, increases."
(14) Blair is already facing a backlash from Conservative ministers and some on the remain side for arguing that people were misinformed when they voted for Brexit.
(15) These highly fragmented replied with the characteristics of misinformation about AIDS are also compatible with situations that could carry risks for the laborers.
(16) All that said, there are still some basic facts to contend with that do suggest many Republican voters believe things that are either misinformed or absurd or both.
(17) Nevertheless, social media is open to misinformation, baseless rumours, hate speech and conspiracy theories.
(18) They point to Education for health as a means for health professionals to prevent problems arising from misinformation to people under medical attendance.
(19) Earlier on Tuesday, one of the leading legislative critics of the NSA's bulk surveillance on Americans' phone records, Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, attacked both the surveillance and what he described as a "culture of misinformation" by administration and intelligence officials about it.
(20) From the very nature of monitoring physiological quantities there will be much misinformation or 'noise' superimposed on the raw signal obtained from the patient.