misguided

Ill-conceived or not thought through.

Adjective

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. -...
Misled or mistaken.
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. - 2001, “Poor Misguided Fool”, in Love Is Here, performed by Starsailor:
- 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...