Example sentences for: misplaced

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

  • … The cover book review scoffs at the misplaced sympathy for men in Susan Faludi's Stiffed . Faludi's poorly written tome ignores "the resurgence of male bravado," which is evident in the candidacy of Donald Trump and the popularity of Howard Stern.

  • Some of the compromises spring from the need of racial solidarity, either as opportunism or misplaced loyalty.

  • Isn't it a little self-pitying to ascribe misplaced guilty liberalism and soggy altruism to the same folks who bring us season after season of formulaic sitcoms, spandexed soap operas, and disease-of-the-week movies?

  • As only Chomskyan grammar is covered in the book, entries are lacking for such common grammatical concepts—albeit from other disciplines, like traditional grammar— substantive, dependent clause, independent clause, conjunctive adverb, adverbial conjunction, misplaced (or dangling) modifier , etc.—all terms well established in discussions of nonChomskyan grammar.

  • That is why the fears expressed by Ross and to a lesser extent by Frantz and Collins about corporate urbanism are misplaced.


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