I'm glad you've kept some of your idealism, but I can't help feeling that it's entirely misplaced in this instance.

To the Sports Editor: The debate on steroids is entirely misplaced.

This preoccupation must be regarded as entirely misplaced under conditions of high demand pressure and high interest rates.

Your concern, touching as it may be, is entirely misplaced.

The consternation that followed was entirely misplaced, in Dodgson's view.

Mr. Springsteen hasn't entirely misplaced his sense of humor.

For all its inflated rhetoric, al-Jabarti's dismay was not entirely misplaced.

And there are times when tact is entirely misplaced.

Fears about mosques are not entirely misplaced, he acknowledged.

The public's faith in stocks hasn't been entirely misplaced.