Definitions

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  • verb Present participle of misteach.
  • noun Wrong, false, or incorrect teaching.

Etymologies

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From misteach +‎ -ing.

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From misteach +‎ -ing.

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Examples

  • Then the Government controlled schools corrupt them into immoral, delinquents misteaching the golden rules and violating the reading, writing, and, arithmetic they should be learning.

    'Daisies' creator Fuller on competing against Obama -- The Live Feed | THR 2008

  • Besides, it must be noted that this churchly misteaching was only a fraction of that general shattering which has disintegrated all the finer fibres of public life.

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • It did not occur to him to think of the mother when he was misteaching the boy, for he was absorbed in providing PLEASURE for himself, then.

    What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872

  • Parents know not but that Providence may be substituting the noblest education for the misteaching of intermediate guardians.

    Deerbrook Harriet Martineau 1839

  • In any case, if there is some “misteaching” going on, it’s not of evolutionary theory, but of science itself.

    Creationism In Arkansas Schools? « Lean Left 2008

  • And since [181] "such a thought cannot enter into the most depraved nature, as to harm another without any good to himself, and yet this must be if we put Christian fathers misteaching their children unreceived doctrines for received (and I hope, for the same reason, received doctrines for unreceived) contrary to their knowledge.

    The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 10. 1630-1694 1820

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