misinfluence
/mɪsˈɪnfluəns/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To influence in a detrimental manner; to act as a bad influence on.
Example Sentences
- "It would still continue to work within as a disturbing and perturbing potency, which detracts from the proper freshness and vigour of the moral zeal, which misinfluences man more or less to yield inclinations and undercurrents of feeling, which do not appear in directly definite offences but still imperceptibly induces in the one direction or the other a state of inertness, of selfish pusillanimity or a prevailing tone of sharpnes and bitterness of disposition of mind;"
- "We do not want a great organization such as is now being brought about through farmers' movements to misrepresent the grain dealsers of this Nation to the point where they will arouse in the hearts and minds of the producers a prejudice against our services, or arouse in the hearts and minds of the consumers of America a prejudice against our services, and we are gathered here now for the purpose of providing ways and means for bringing to the attention of both classes the real service we render, in order that our interests will be protected against the chicanery, the socialism, the anarchy, the infamy of those things that are being brought to bear to misinfluence and misdirect the farmers and others of this country whose interests are bound to suffer when ours do."
- "As more and more people become aware of this systematic program of government partiality towards those special interests “compatible ” with the prejudices of the fonctionnaires, demagogues, intellectuals, and others who misinfluence “public policy", they also become aware of the need to organize politically either to press upon the state claims of their own, or to resist the claims of others."
- "So I must also keep in mind as I write this that what I describe, again, may not tend to truth because of some environmental misinfluence."
- "At one and the same time it is considered to be the in-profession, the sophisticated career, the forward-looking opportunity, the world of the avant-garde and at the same time it is reckoned to be a misinfluence, a sham, a hypocritical calling that could do with a bit more hypercriticism from its followers."
- "We can supplement them; we can keep them from exerting any great misinfluence; in short , we can use them instead of being used by them ."