Misguided vs Misdirect - What's the difference?
misguided | misdirect |
ill-conceived or not thought through
* 2013 September 28, , "
misled or mistaken
lacking proper guidance
(misguide)
To direct something wrongly
*{{quote-news
, date = 21 August 2012
, first = Ed
, last = Pilkington
, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
, newspaper = The Guardian
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true
, page =
, passage = In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected , and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.}}
To put the incorrect address on a mail item
As verbs the difference between misguided and misdirect
is that misguided is (misguide) while misdirect is to direct something wrongly.As an adjective misguided
is ill-conceived or not thought through.misguided
English
Adjective
(en adjective)London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- I believe in freedom of movement and view the current government’s restrictive attitude as both socially and economically misguided . Yet I fear that a special London policy will only exacerbate existing divisions.
- A misguided child may use his personal power in mischievous ways