misguided

• So that's what we call the misguided missile. —  Charles Elachi on the Mars Rovers
• Nowhere did I say you personally were 'misguided' - —  RealClimate
• In what can only be described as a misguided and knee-jerk response to the Craigslist Killer drama, attorneys general around the country want the site to shut down its erotic services section.
• Cheerfulness and frankness prevailed Never was nobler duty confided to human hands than the uplifting and upbuilding of the prostrate and bleeding South--misguided, perhaps, but beautiful in her suffering, and honest, brave and generous always. —  Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
• The pretended mercy to the misguided was a mere delusion The superintendents, preachers, teachers, ministers, sermon-makers, deacons, and other officers, were to be executed with the halter, with confiscation of their whole property. —  PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete

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