Misreform
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A reform that ends up making things worse.
"... 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."
- 1 To make a misreform; to reform badly or in error. obsolete
"And more then this he foysteth in to his translation the worde necessarie in steed of flagitare videntur, And thus like a bungling botcher he patcheth togither those vncertainties of Cassander to make himselfe and others a deceitfull safegarde of greater comfort and benefit for the soule which he erroneously supposeth rather to be in his misreformed faith them in the Romish."
Example
More examples"... 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."
Etymology
From mis- + reform.
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