It is misplaced if our own duty has to be done, and we pass the golden moments in inactivity, however pious.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
His confidence in her had been, in no way, misplaced-she loved a wedding and was the only person in the world who could bring to its making so fine a compound of sentiment and common sense.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
He has loved his young sister with a chivalrous admiration and trust; and he is one of those men to whom a blot in the 'scutcheon is only less terrible than the knowledge that such trust has been misplaced.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr