misinfluence
A bad influence; something that misinfluences.
Noun
- A bad influence; something that misinfluences.
- 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. - 1968, James McClure, The Hanging of the Angels, page 256:
- 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...
- The act or status of misinfluencing.
- 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 . - 1930, The English Journal - Volume 19, page 238:
- 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...
Origin
From mis- + influence.
Forms
Verb
- To influence in a detrimental manner; to act as a bad influence on.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...