The phrase "misguided sympathy" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe a well-intentioned but ultimately unhelpful or harmful form of sympathy. Example: "I appreciate your misguided sympathy, but what I really need right now is someone to listen and offer practical advice."
The first episode, which airs tonight, follows the story of Dan as he struggles to come to terms with his newfound disability surrounded by people who have had many more years getting used to the stares, questions and misguided sympathy.
Eliot Spitzer, the New York governor busted for buying sex but never prosecuted, has received a lot of misguided sympathy on the irrelevant grounds that prostitution is a victimless crime.
When a young man of 23 dies on a railway track - high on drugs and alcohol, having fled the police, his car abandoned at the side of a nearby road - it is perhaps misguided to direct sympathy anywhere other than to his family and friends.
It's a weirdly misguided sequence, draining audience sympathy for Timothy and seriously misrepresenting the natures of both sexuality and faith, not to mention pounding on yet another cliche, the gay preacher.
In Eastwood's film, all sympathies are potentially misguided; all actions, even ones done in pursuit of his own clear sense of justice, risk devastating results.
His Soames Forsyte — like Brody, his character on "Homeland" — is driven by a cause he believes is just and evokes sympathy for his torment if not his misguided actions.
Still, fundraising continues to be a problem (pdf), largely due to the lack of sympathy for prisoners and the ongoing (and misguided) notion that prisons must be all about punishment.
He suspects that, in light of how many children Duggar already has, sympathy for her situation may come in misguided forms.
Forrest described his conduct as "barbaric, misguided and wrong" and said "it is important to me that you have not expressed sympathy for the victims of the Yemeni kidnappings".
Her friendship with Hitler and her fascist sympathies ensured that she spent most of the war in prison.The received view of bright but misguided young "gels" getting into scrapes is not quite accurate.
