Synonyms for misplaced
mis·placed

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1. misplacedadjective

   put in the wrong place or position

   "She was penalized for a spelling mistake or a misplaced accent"

   Synonyms:
   mislaid

   Antonyms:
   found, arranged, ordered

2. mislaid, misplacedadjective

   lost temporarily; as especially put in an unaccustomed or forgotten place

   "the mislaid hat turned up eventually"; "misplaced tickets"

   Synonyms:
   mislaid

   Antonyms:
   found, ordered, arranged

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1. List of paraphrases for "misplaced":

   mislaid, displaced

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1. Pastor Fred Jackson:

   Trust. Trust. Thats all I can say, we as Christians like to believe were trusting and we put our trust in other people and in God, and sometimes that trust is misplaced.

2. John Alejandro King, a.k.a. The Covert Comic, www.covertcomic.com:

   America has never lost a war. We just misplaced a couple temporarily.

3. Rolling Stone:

   We have come to the conclusion that our trust in her was misplaced, we were trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account. We are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone who was affected by the story.

4. Joe BidenLarry Summers:

   I think policy is rather overdoing International Energy Agency, the sense of serenity and complacency being projected by the economic policymakers, that this is all something that can easily be managed, is misplaced.

5. Pastor Fred Jackson:

   We as Christians like to believe were trusting and we put our trust in other people and in God, and sometimes that trust is misplaced.