Sentence examples for take misguided from inspiring English sources

Patriotic pride has its proper place in all this too, and though the marketing of Team GB sometimes grates with me like fingernails on a blackboard, I want British success too, and I dream of an end to the "anyone but Britain" syndrome in which a few take misguided pride.

"People in my constituency received a leaflet from the BNP saying Jo Cox took misguided action by helping Muslims in the country who may now go on to join Isis, alongside some other horrendous allegations," she said.

We all condemn senseless violence, and today groups like ISIS have certainly taken misguided (pseudo) 'religious' brutality to an unprecedented extreme.

Once the crisis took hold, misguided actions by government leaders escalated what should have been a controllable situation into a full-blown crisis of confidence.

He is an ebullient presence, even as we begin to see that he gets his kicks by taking on misguided charity projects.

If they back up and prepare to fire, approach them and they will take another misguided swing.

It was also unfortunate that the little action taken was mostly misguided.

Markowitz's public image of well-meaning haplessness is so refined that what might be seen as a calculated step by another politician is, in his case, taken to be misguided folly.

That's what President Donald Trump said — and much more — in a bonkers impromptu press gaggle on Friday, where he gave his candid (and misguided) takes on just about anything he was asked.

It took this misguided position to a ludicrous extreme on Tuesday, insisting that the federal courts could not review its determinations.

8 P.M. (TMC) ELECTION (1999) A high school political campaign takes a misguided turn in this comedy starring Matthew Broderick and Reese Witherspoon, above.