misguided

adj

1. Ill-conceived or not thought through.

   “I believe in freedom of movement and view the current government’s restrictive attitude as both socially and economically misguided. Yet I fear that a special London policy will only exacerbate existing divisions.”

2. Misled or mistaken.
3. Lacking proper guidance.

   “You're just a poor misguided fool Who thinks they know what I should do A line for me and a line for you I lose my right to a point of view.”

   “Martin Luther King Jr's 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on the need for moral intervention should be taped to every tech CEO's wall: “When scientific power outruns moral power, we end up with guided missiles and misguided men.””

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of misguide