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misguide

[mis-gahyd] / mɪsˈgaɪd /






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As expectations about what these products should detect increase, so too do the opportunities to let them misguide us and cause us to punish or profile innocent people.

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2023

“The agents guide the people, or misguide them, into going illegally,” Anil Pratham, director of the anti-human trafficking unit of the Gujarat police, said in a telephone interview.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2022

Don’t let the instant success stories of the past decade misguide you.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2021

The words lingered as he drove me home in silence, forming the genesis of a mantra that would frequently misguide me as I transformed myself into an Everything But Girl.

From Salon • Feb. 10, 2013

Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind; What the weak head with strongest bias rules,— Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John