miseducate
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
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)
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
It’s true that the people of Lapvona are educated or miseducated in strange ways.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 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
These miseducated brothers," the pastor fumed to the young Obama, "like that sociologist at the University of Chicago, talking about 'the declining significance of race.'
From Time Magazine Archive
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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