Misreform

Quick meaning: Misreform is a noun meaning A reform that ends up making things worse.

Meaning

A reform that ends up making things worse.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) To make a misreform; to reform badly or in error.

Example Sentences

The authors had little to say about the complete absence of institutional transformations in the economy and emphasise sabotage on the part of the nomenklatura as the principal cause for the "misreform".

... whether the party's determination to say that it is going to " abolish the eleven-plus " examination is merely to be a slogan about gradual changes in selection methods, or whether it will herald a serious attempt at educational misreform.

First, it will be soon manifest to them who know what wise men should know, that the constitution and reformation of a commonwealth, if Ezra and Nehemiah did not misreform, is, like a building, to begin orderly from the foundation thereof, which is marriage and the family, to set arigth first whatever is amiss therein.

And I do still believe that, as all the errors of your life have proceeded from too great an excess of charity and therefore they may the rather be called the errors of other men than your's, it is posfible you may exercise more of that Christian virtue, towards those misreformed Churches, than their constitution deserves.

Word Forms

• misreforms
• misreforming
• misreformed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misreach, mistransformation, misruling, misrule, misimprovement, misrepair.

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