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misguided

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1. misguided - Adjective

2. misguided - Verb

3. misguided - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

poorly conceived or thought out

wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Martin Luther King Jr.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. Iris Murdoch

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. Douglas MacArthur

Is love this misguided need to have you beside me most of the time? Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Is it this belonging, this completeness? Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental/population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!" Jared Diamond

I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. Mahatma Gandhi

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