Sentence examples for misplaced cleverness from inspiring English sources

Dr Bull said cheating could take many forms - it might be laziness, but it could also be misplaced cleverness.

We are saccharine, self-regarding, neurotic and competitive; we waver between sentimentality, misplaced outbreaks of cleverness and dreadful plonking comments about The Culture and The People.

And misplaced.

Ballots can be misplaced.

This concern is misplaced.

Their optimism looks misplaced.

market is likely misplaced.

The attacks were misplaced.

Was this optimism misplaced?

Our skepticism was misplaced.

Is it misplaced?