miseducate

verb

mis·ed·u·cate ˌmis-ˈe-jə-ˌkāt

miseducated; miseducating

: to educate (someone) in a poor, improper, or harmful manner

… libraries and museums, newspapers, radio and most recently television have shared significantly in educating (and miseducating) Americans.—

Amy Gutmann

Examples of miseducate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web We are woefully miseducated in our country about these early years of the republic. —

Sophia Nguyen, Washington Post, 16 June 2023 Increasingly popular curricula don’t just miseducate our kids. —

Samantha Hedges, National Review, 2 May 2021

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