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misguided in English:

1. intended to be helpful but in fact making a situation worse



2. guide


I went with them so that I could guide them around Nagasaki.
Guide dogs help blind people.
Refer to the Users' Guide if you have any problems.
guided tour
It is not too much to say that a man's interests are a sure guide to the real man.
Please look up the first train to London in the railway guide.
My boss has been trumpeting the virtues of yet another runaway bestselling managerial strategy guide.
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
Abu al-Husayn ibn al-Rawandi, already in the ninth century, held that reason is man's exclusive guide to truth, a quest in which revelation is of no help.
Christopher Columbus's "The Idiot's Guide to Killing a Shark Barehanded" and "The Twenty Ways to Strangle a Giant Squid" both went on to become bestsellers.
Crossing guards are posted during school hours to guide children safely across busy streets.
The travellers need someone to guide them through the unfamiliar jungle.
Coleen is visually-impaired and her dog Spot is her guide when they go out.
a book that gives information about something or tells you how to do something; "a hotel/restaurant guide, a user's guide"
The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.

English word "misguided"(guide) occurs in sets:

Word formation

3. unreasonable


Do you think I'm being unreasonable?
Don't be unreasonable.
Tom thought Mary's offer was unreasonable.
You must not give in to his unreasonable demands.
He cannot have said such an unreasonable thing.
She has an unreasonable fear of spiders.
Deterioration of the future tax results can cause that this assumption may be unreasonable.
It was an unreasonable step
This decission was really unreasonable.
The salesman sold the article at an unreasonable price.
It is not unreasonable to think that these people were excluded from the community.

English word "misguided"(unreasonable) occurs in sets:

vocab wiola mis/in/un/dis

4. having faulty judgement