Sentence examples for a misguided decision from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a misguided decision" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a choice or judgment that is based on incorrect understanding or reasoning.
Example: "The company's decision to cut costs by reducing staff was ultimately a misguided decision that harmed morale and productivity."
Alternatives: "an ill-advised choice" or "a poor judgment".

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It is a misguided decision.

However, this proved a misguided decision; those cute, counter-intuitive hunches do not always work.

Corporations, unions and advocacy groups were given this laissez-faire spending freedom in a misguided decision by the Supreme Court.

Dr. Vaughan described a system in which internal pressures and external factors like politics and even budgets came together to produce a misguided decision to launch that shuttle.

But conservation groups say that positive outcome was undermined by a misguided decision by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), the entity set up to protect at-risk wildlife, to allow limited sales of ivory.

Paul Cann, the charity's director of policy, said: "All too often, Gordon Brown's government appears to place the requirements of our pensioner population at the bottom of the priority list which, considering the reality of an ageing population, is a misguided decision".

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It is almost certain that such a monumentally misguided decision will have a chilling and deleterious effect not only on our ability to prosecute current and future detainees, but also on our ability to prosecute the overall war on terror.

White took the unusual step of issuing a blistering statement, calling the lawsuit "a badly misguided decision without support in the facts or the law".

As a copy editor, I can't help cringing at some of the editors' choices: Turning the cockney interjection io into oy so that Fred Weasley winds up sounding like an old Jewish woman seems like a particularly misguided decision.

She called the charges "a badly misguided decision" and said there was "not a shred of objective evidence to support the allegations.

DEWEY KLURFIELD Washington, June 12 , 2013  I agree that Citizens United was a tragically misguided decision.

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