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

  • 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.

    Life on the Discovery Channel - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • 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

  • I must have mislearned the definition of the word fascist.

    CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2007 2007

  • 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.

    Matthew Yglesias » Hegemony and Deficit 2010

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