Meaning of misfarm | Babel Free

Definitions

To do a poor job of farming.

Examples

“The poet seems to inwardly adopt⟳ as his ancestors all the generations of farmers — good and bad, but mostly bad — who for two hundred years have⟳ farmed and misfarmed this region along the Kentucky River.”

“The stretch⟳ of land⟳ that Father inherited from his father was misfarmed by every generation for over seventy-five years and was gray, unwilling soil.”

“Schlesinger contrasts Morgan's approach⟳ unfavorably with the more incentive-based approaches of his RVA codirectors David Lilienthal and H.A. Morgan, neither of whom shared Arthur Morgan's or Roosevelt's passion for using the TVA as a means of social mastery: Where Arthur Morgan would pass⟳ a law depriving a farmer of land⟳ he has misfarmed, Lilienthal and H. A. Morgan would offer⟳ him inducements to use⟳ his land⟳ more wisely.”

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