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miseducate

American  
[mis-ej-oo-kayt] / mɪsˈɛdʒ ʊˌkeɪt /

verb (used with object)

miseducated, miseducating
  1. to educate improperly.


Other Word Forms


Etymology

Origin of miseducate

mis- 1 + educate


Example Sentences

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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 William Horatio Barnes

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 Alexander Johnston

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 David Graham Phillips

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 F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

It’s true that the people of Lapvona are educated or miseducated in strange ways.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2022

C.J., who is Black like all but a couple of the characters, suffers all the side effects of being purposefully miseducated in a Jim Crow America.

From Washington Post ● May 6, 2022

It left them miseducated, i.e., taught things that were not true.

From Seattle Times ● May 16, 2021

“We were miseducated about African American history, mostly by omission, by distortion,” Bonner said.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2016

During the trial, Baldur von Schirach, the first Reich leader of the Hitler Youth, admitted, among other things, that he miseducated and misled the German youth.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

As a BDM leader, she was accused of miseducating Germany’s young people and sentenced to several years at a women’s prison camp.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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