misguiding

Verb

misguide (third-person singular simple present misguides, present participle misguiding, simple past and past participle misguided)

1. (transitive) To guide poorly or incorrectly; to lead astray or into error.
   • On the whole it were better to misguide a child in knowledge, which it can remedy later, than to mistone it in feeling, for which there is no remedy. A jarring note implanted in its nature might spoil the music of its life […]1895, Henry Maudsley, The Pathology of Mind, page 541

   Synonyms:

   mislead