0 unreasonable or unsuitable because of being based on bad judgment or on wrong information or beliefs: --
The company blamed its disappointing performance on a misguided business plan.
He was shot as he made a misguided attempt to stop the robbers single-handed.
1 unreasonable or unsuitable because of being based on a bad judgment of a situation or on information or beliefs that are wrong: --
In turn, the design of treatments and their reimbursement should not be based on such a restrictive and misguided criterion.
Anyone who thinks such things should be made even harder is misguided, or simply cruel.
We cannot here pursue all the reasons why we think both of these moves are theologically and philosophically misguided.
The research is clear-cut in showing that this was a misguided inference.
Their misguided implementation of that criterion does not amount to a rejection of it and an embrace of some other law-ascertaining benchmark.
The adoption of a developmental perspective on representation thus suggests that the juxtaposition of small unit and large unit approaches to early reading is misguided.
Let me note, to set the record straight, that the bad reputation of all consequentialist models is based on at least one utterly misguided consideration.
It shows that theories of everything in physics are misguided and explains why the emphasis on genes in medicine and biology is overdone.