misguidedness

For more: “It was a cascade of failures, and at the top is Putin’s own misguidedness, his own isolation and his own conviction that he knew what was best,” Anton Troianovski, the Moscow bureau chief, told The Morning newsletter.

Anton: It was a cascade of failures, and at the top is Putin’s own misguidedness, his own isolation and his own conviction that he knew what was best.

As we’ve all seen here, they can just as easily represent stuntedness, inertia, confusion, misguidedness, selfishness, cruelty, fear, denial … have I missed any?

You’ve explained your position more than once, and whether out of stubbornness, resentment, or simple misguidedness, he’s sticking to his position.

In landing on this point — the dreadful misguidedness of spurning scientific evidence — Specter returns to a theme that has animated his work for years, including a 2009 book, “Denialism,” in which he argues that Americans increasingly mistrust scientific institutions, at their peril.