Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To educate improperly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To educate in a wrong manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
educate wrongly.
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Examples
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Pat Buchannan, likewise, got people to pay him to 'miseducate' them through his books.
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Critics: Legislation allows districts to 'miseducate' students
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The American educational system, be it public schools or private schools, continue to miseducate all young people as long as we do not teach about the contributions of all people, to America, and to this world, equally and not just during specialized occasions like Black History Month or Women's History Month.
Kevin Powell: Boy Asked to Be 'Slave' At School Kevin Powell 2011
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The American educational system, be it public schools or private schools, continue to miseducate all young people as long as we do not teach about the contributions of all people, to America, and to this world, equally and not just during specialized occasions like Black History Month or Women's History Month.
Kevin Powell: Boy Asked to Be 'Slave' At School Kevin Powell 2011
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Much of this outpouring to inform and educate or miseducate the public may well have been illegal under McCain-Feingold if we were closer to November 2012.
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And, in behavior that might be considered yet more sinister, sometimes banks had to agree with one another to miseducate clients with yield settlement.
Omer Rosen: How to Deceive a Client Without Really Trying Omer Rosen 2011
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The American educational system, be it public schools or private schools, continue to miseducate all young people as long as we do not teach about the contributions of all people, to America, and to this world, equally and not just during specialized occasions like Black History Month or Women's History Month.
Kevin Powell: Boy Asked to Be 'Slave' At School Kevin Powell 2011
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And, in behavior that might be considered yet more sinister, sometimes banks had to agree with one another to miseducate clients with yield settlement.
Omer Rosen: How to Deceive a Client Without Really Trying Omer Rosen 2011
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Please do a better job of getting the facts straight before continuing to misguide and miseducate people about this!
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Part of the problem is that I think we as a country deliberate miseducate our children on the history of slavery.
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