miseducate
Americanverb (used with object)
Other Word Forms
- miseducation noun
Etymology
Origin of miseducate
Example Sentences
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How shameful that men of influence should mislead and miseducate the public mind!
From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Johnston, Alexander
I never attended a high school, and now I rejoice at it, for what a German calls education can only serve to miseducate after all.
From The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
The other tends to miseducate the shallow and unthinking, to give them a ruinously false notion of the delights of vice.
From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham
He uttered a severe rebuke to those who thus "mislead and miseducate the public mind."
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio
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