Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not truly or wisely learned.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mislearn .
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Examples
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Anyway, after explanation, I think they finally understood the concept of “natural selection,” but I was surprised by the fact that my two very intelligent children had either both coincidentially mislearned the material or had been mistaught.
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Maybe, too, they decided to post their exploits on the internet because they had learned - mislearned, is more like it - that there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Mona Ackerman: Mean Girls And The Parents Who Love Them 2008
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I must have mislearned the definition of the word fascist.
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Only 36% of voters want to kill healthcare — a chunk a little larger than the hardcore right, and all the rest of the voters incuding Coakley’s want healthcare reform, they just don’t like the sausage-making and all information about the bills has been mislearned from Fox, Rush and the other teagasbaggers.
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