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Discover LudwigThe phrase 'misguided talent' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a talent that is being used in an unwise or ineffective way. For example, "Carlos had a lot of misguided talent, and it often ended up in a dead end."
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The Jets have been so mismanaged, so hamstrung by their own misguided talent evaluations and bad accounting, this was the only correct move in what is now a down-to-the-studs rebuilding.
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"He had tremendous talents and abilities, and they were misguided," said Edward M. Penick Sr., who was born in Little Rock in 1922 and has lived here all his life.
These ideas are misguided.
This assessment is misguided.
These critics are misguided.
But this is misguided.
That's misguided.
Their charges are misguided.
That is misguided.
It's misguided.
It's also misguided.
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