The phrase "a misguided act" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action that is based on incorrect judgment or understanding.
Example: "The decision to cut funding for the program was a misguided act that ultimately harmed the community."
Alternatives: "an ill-conceived action" or "a misjudged move".
Mr. Miller wrote, "It now appears to be more likely than not that the original transmission of the material to Mr. Downey was not, in fact, a misguided act of a single person acting alone as Mr. Downey had initially assumed, but rather the concerted, intentional act by more than one person associated with the Bush campaign".
It may not be an evil act; it may be an act of desperation or a misguided act of love.
I realised that I procrastinate in a misguided act of rebellion, fuelled by resentment that I have become the unwilling chief washerwoman for three other human beings.
It was certainly profoundly unnecessary to commission Emma Thompson's 1988 sketch show Thompson, a misguided act of Footlights favouritism surely, the original tapes of which should be sealed in lead caskets and buried 100 feet deep on inhospitable terrain, and probably are.
She tosses last week's First Wife crown right out the window by taking Leila home with her in a misguided act of charity.
Click here to view At the centre of Calvary is Brendan Gleeson's conscientious Catholic padre who, during confession, learns that a stranger plans to murder him in less than a week: a belated, misguided act of revenge for abuse at the hands of a paedophile priest.
But as I sat watching R. Sky Palkowitz (who bills herself as The Delusional Diva) perform Calling America: Don't Hang Up! and feeling very much like a captive audience, I found myself wishing for the old days of The Gong Show when a stage manager could stop a performer's severely misguided act before she had a chance to run out the clock.
The GOP has been squirming more than usual this week, now that their darling rising star, New Jersey governor Chris Christie, has been "embarrassed and humiliated" on a national stage because of a breathtakingly mean and misguided act of revenge.
But Didion, in this misguided act of exhibitionism, seems to imply that she's got a lock on loss.
"For the next several weeks, we're all going to come face to face with unbearable grief, loss, and pain caused by a series of senseless, horribly misguided acts carried out by two brothers," she said.
Misguided people will always commit misguided acts, but we do not need to live as if it might happen to each of us every day.
