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miseducation

American  
[mis-ej-oo-kay-shuhn] / ˌmɪs ɛdʒ ʊˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

  1. the act or process of educating improperly, especially in a way that is inaccurate or misleading.


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“Nobody wants to talk about the system issues — miseducation, unemployment,” said Dominique Davis, CEO and founder of Community Passageways, a violence intervention agency.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2023

Experts also say that miseducation about dementia is compounded by a lack of widespread awareness and basic literacy surrounding memory health in the United States.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2021

Sheinbaum, the Mexico City mayor and a protege of the president, recalled her youthful miseducation about Mexico’s origins.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2021

There is so much miseducation and bad faith in that tiny word “we.”

From Slate • Jul. 14, 2019

It is at best a miseducation of your cattle into lawless habits.

From What I know of farming: a series of brief and plain expositions of practical agriculture as an art based upon science by Greeley, Horace