Example sentences for: misguided

How can you use “misguided” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • She characterizes Chambers as a Dostoyevskian figure, "trying to break what he saw as the 'invincible ignorance' of a nation blinded to the 'crisis of history' by its prosperity and misguided generous-mindedness."

  • " " ' s disgusting letter concerning meal and gift parity, along with her psychotically misguided ideas of the whys and wherefores of giving gifts are a great deal more than "alarming."

  • Despite the furor in Turkey over Italy's refusal to extradite Abdullah Ocalan, the Kurdish rebel leader, the Turkish Daily News said Saturday that "it would be wrong and even self-defeating to make the entire Italian nation pay the price for the mistakes of a few misinformed and misguided people in their government.

  • And the whole concept of it seemed misguided: What vegetarian wants to eat something labeled as "steak," even if it is molded soy protein?

  • The issue of pronoun agreement might be laid at the door of the feminists' misguided interference with the forces of language, resulting in a nervous rejection of the masculine pronoun as the neutral one; but, in truth, the sustenance of the singular nature of words like each, everybody, everyone, etc. is probably pedantry, for sense and logic are not sacrificed by changing them to plurals, with the added benefit of avoiding the dreaded he/his/him, regarded by feminists as the bearer of the stigma of male machismo.


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