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Discover LudwigThe phrase "misguided advice" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to advice that is not helpful or may lead someone in the wrong direction. Example: Despite his good intentions, the online forums were filled with misguided advice that only made her confusion worse.
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A lot of kids today get misguided advice.
In many cases, "that was just very misguided advice".
Immigrants peddle personal accounts ripped from international headlines, con artists prey on the newly arrived and nonlawyers offer misguided advice.
It's the misguided advice of other equally confused people and melodramatic 'health' reporting in the media that interferes with this innate understanding and messes up our natural instincts.
But Mr. Bush also took Attorney General John Ashcroft's misguided advice that the Geneva protocols did not apply to the Taliban army, a position based on the flimsy pretext that Afghanistan was a "failed nation".
If the United States accepts your and Ambassador John R. Bolton's misguided advice to reopen negotiations on the text for the new Human Rights Council, it would do a disservice to the proud human rights tradition of the United States.
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The "Fashion Killa" rapper may have caught some heat last week when he offered a bit of misguided beauty advice.
These practitioners, lacking any formal training in law, use their knowledge of Haitian Creole to offer misguided legal advice on immigration processes, taking their money and leaving them to navigate the process alone.
While working on my piece about the British inventor James Dyson (subscribers only), I was reminded of one of the most famously misguided pieces of advice ever delivered by a member of the older generation to a young person.
These well-meaning but misguided pieces of advice do not really work for someone who is depressed.
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