misteaching
adjective
Roget 538:
misteaching
etc.
v.;
unedifying.
noun
Roget 538:
misteaching†,
misinformaton,
misintelligence†,
misguidance,
misdirection,
mispersuasion†,
misinstruction†,
misleading
etc.
v.;
perversion,
false teaching;
sophistry
etc.
477;
college of Laputa;
the blind leading the blind.
[misteaching by government agents]
propaganda,
disinformation,
agitprop;
indoctrination.
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misteach
verb
Roget 477:
judge intuitively,
judge by intuition;
hazard a proposition,
hazard a guess,
talk at random.
reason ill,
falsely
etc.
adj.;
misjudge
etc.
481;
paralogize†.
take on faith,
take as a given;
assume
(supposition)
514.
pervert,
quibble;
equivocate,
mystify,
evade,
elude;
gloss over,
varnish;
misteach
etc.
538†;
mislead
etc.
(error)
495;
cavil,
refine,
subtilize†,
split hairs;
misrepresent
etc.
(lie)
544.
beg the question,
reason in a circle,
reason in circles,
assume the conclusion.
cut blocks with a razor,
beat about the bush,
play fast and loose,
play fast and loose with the facts,
blow hot and cold,
prove that black is white and white black,
travel out of the record,
parler a tort et a travers [Fr.],
put oneself out of court,
not have a leg to stand on.
judge hastily,
shoot from the hip,
jump to conclusions
(misjudgment)
481.
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Roget 538:
misinform,
misteach†,
misdescribe†,
misinstruct†,
miscorrect†;
misdirect,
misguide;
pervert;
put on a false scent,
throw off the scent,
throw off the trail;
deceive
etc.
545;
mislead
etc.
(error)
495;
misrepresent;
lie
etc.
544;
ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces [Lat.]
[Vergil].
propagandize,
disinform.
render unintelligible
etc.
519;
bewilder
etc.
(uncertainty)
475;
mystify
etc.
(conceal)
528;
unteach.
[person or government agent who misteaches]
propagandist.
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