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
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
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)
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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