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Definition of Miseducate
1. v. t. To educate in a wrong manner.
Definition of Miseducate
1. Verb. To educate wrongly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Miseducate
1. [v -CATED, -CATING, -CATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miseducate
Literary usage of Miseducate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1902)
"To underpay the agent of a charity organization society is to miseducate the
public and to lower the dignity and importance of the work. ..."
2. Papers and Proceedings by American Sociological Society Meeting, American Sociological Association (1917)
"The machine politician was prompt to take the naive foreign-born voter in hand
and miseducate him politically. It was easy to persuade the newcomer that a ..."
3. American Orations: Studies in American Political History edited by Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn (1898)
"How shameful that men of influence should mislead and miseducate the public mind!
They proclaim, "This is the white man's Government," and the whole coil of ..."
4. The Principles of Sociology by Edward Alsworth Ross (1920)
"The low politician promptly took the naive foreign- born voter in hand and
proceeded to miseducate him politically. It was easy to persuade the ..."
5. The Charity Organization Movement in the United States: A Study in American by Frank Dekker Watson (1922)
"Does it appeal to the head but only to miseducate, as when the appeal is to make
the society a proxy in all the charitable relationships of life or support ..."
6. History of the Thirty-ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes (1868)
"He uttered a severe rebuke to those who thus " mislead and miseducate the public
mind." There were some Republicans in Congress who disagreed with Mr. ..."
7. The World's Orators: Comprising the Great Orations of the World's History by Guy Carleton Lee (1901)
"How shameful that men of influence should mislead and miseducate the public mind !
They proclaim, "This is the white man's government/' ..."
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