Meaning of misinfluence | Babel Free

Definitions

To influence in a detrimental manner; to act as a bad influence on.

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“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 undercurrents of feeling, which do not appear in directly definite offences but still imperceptibly induces in the one direction or the other a state of inertness, of selfish pusillanimity or a prevailing tone of sharpnes and bitterness of disposition of mind;”

“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 producers a prejudice against our services, or arouse in the hearts and minds of the consumers of America a prejudice against our services, and we are gathered here now for the purpose of providing ways and means for bringing to the attention of both classes the real service we render, in order that our interests will be protected against the chicanery, the socialism, the anarchy, the infamy of those things that are being brought to bear to misinfluence and misdirect the farmers and others of this country whose interests are bound to suffer when ours do.”

“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 misinfluence “public policy", they also become aware of the need to organize politically either to press upon the state claims of their own, or to resist the claims of others.”

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