Misinfluence

Quick meaning: Misinfluence is a verb meaning To influence in a detrimental manner; to act as a bad influence on.

Meaning

To influence in a detrimental manner; to act as a bad influence on.

More Meanings

1. A bad influence; something that misinfluences.
2. The act or status of misinfluencing.

Example Sentences

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 .

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.

The sailors, soldiers, and other members of the armed forces have left their mark on society. Some marks are misinfluence, misrepresentation, illegitimate children, and misinterpretation of the ways of society in the prospective territories.

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.

Word Forms

• misinfluences
• misinfluencing
• misinfluenced

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misincline, misinstruct, misdictate, misinspire, mismanipulate, missway.

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