adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
Children must be warned against a misplaced trust of strangers.
▪
Despite her doubts, she supported the new legislation out of a misplaced sense of loyalty to the leadership.
▪
I suppose her chief fault was misplaced trust, rather than any real crime.
▪
Richards said, with misplaced confidence, that the ship was 'unsinkable'.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
But the idea that you have to see the original film is misplaced and outmoded.
▪
I only ask because you may miss a rare opportunity to improve you life in April, due to misplaced prejudice.
▪
If banks choose not to be tempted in this way then an appeal to their civic duty is misplaced .
▪
In such a situation, I suggest, faith becomes blind, belief becomes credulous and trust becomes misplaced .
▪
Liberal emphasis on the psychological problems of the radicals appears misplaced .
▪
The misplaced bonhomie, the unchecked schoolboy enthusiasm that Edward distrusted in him, was tightly reined.
▪
Theoretically and empirically this emphasis is misplaced .
▪
This misplaced sycophancy is compounded by a mass of aristocratic name dropping.