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mistaught

mistaught is the simple past and past participle of misteach.

Meaning of misteach

Verb

misteach (third-person singular simple present misteaches, present participle misteaching, simple past and past participle mistaught)

  1. To teach incorrectly.
    • Men are mistaught many things: that violence and control of others are acceptable, that they are strong and therefore entitled to be violent. Similarly they are taught that they are not victims; that they can and should take care of themselves. For gay men, this heritage can lead to violence in...1989 April 22, Jay Reed, “Naming and Confronting Gay Male Battering”, in Gay Community News, page 9

Questions about mistaught

What is mistaught the simple past and past participle of?
Mistaught is the simple past and past participle of misteach.

Words near mistaught in the dictionary

  1. Mistassinis
  2. mistaste
  3. mistasted
  4. mistastes
  5. mistasting
  6. mistaught
  7. mistax
  8. mistaxed
  9. mistaxes
  10. mistaxing
  11. mistbelt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mistaught (page history and authors); misteach (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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