(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.
Misinterpret
Definition:
(v. t.) To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) During interview and chart audit, the physicians were found to have consistently underestimated, misinterpreted, or neglected psychiatric aspects of care among a majority of patients in the study.
(2) Automatic analysis of oculopneumoplethysmography recordings might minimize the risks of misinterpretation and might improve the clinical significance of the Gee-oculopneumoplethysmography test.
(3) A 68-year-old man with known villous adenoma of the rectum had recurrent severe episodes of dehydration and electrolyte loss, misinterpreted as being due to "chronic pyelonephritic".
(4) Such changes may be misinterpreted as diagnostic of basal or squamous epithelioma.
(5) The similar densities and anatomical appearances on cross section scans of these diseases probably account for this misinterpretation.
(6) This phenomenon is due to the presence of extensive dental restorations and should not be misinterpreted in terms of deficient 99mTc-pertechnetate uptake in the minor salivary glands of the oral cavity.
(7) However, it must be stated that no malignant lymphomas were demonstrated in our patients, although the disease can give rise to very pronounced, possibly transitory, lesions in the lymphatic tissue, easily misinterpreted as malignant.
(8) Vascular lesions of the shoulder may be misinterpreted as one of the more familiar shoulder abnormalities by a treating physician.
(9) Despite the propagation of imaging techniques in recent years, brain neoplasms are still identified too late in many cases, not least because of a disregard or misinterpretation of early psychiatric symptoms.
(10) By sonography only 10 out of these 326 were misinterpretated as being pathological, 2 by urography.
(11) Careful testing and evaluation of each antibody are necessary to prevent misinterpretation.
(12) In the other case follicular cervicitis was correctly diagnosed by the trained cytotechnologists but frequently misinterpreted by the students.
(13) Tools such as the PCC should be used judiciously, given the possible abuses and misinterpretations of hospital quality scores.
(14) In 12 patients, MR demonstrated neither an intracardiac mass nor an anatomic variant that was likely to have been misinterpreted as a mass on the echocardiogram.
(15) The consistency of this classification was tested by two Brisbane pathologists who indicated that we had misinterpreted some cases of superficial spreading malignant melanoma as lentigo maligna melanoma.
(16) We believe that some previously published data might have been misinterpreted by neglecting the important differences between 'early' and 'late' CFU-S assays.
(17) In older patients the finding could be misinterpreted as evidence of extracranial cerebrovascular disease, but clinical considerations should obviate unnecessary neuroradiological diagnostic procedures.
(18) The personnel misinterpreted the patients' defences and considered the patients to be non-suicidal, capable and even strong.
(19) He added that the relatively low number of people who moved on to take out a Green Deal loan is open to misinterpretation.
(20) Hammond sought to blame the BBC for misinterpreting an Isaf statement issued on Monday, but the MoD conceded the statement might have been unclear.