Meaning of misreform | Babel Free

Definitions

A reform that ends up making things worse.

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.”

“I give you this hint that you may work up the concluding scene of her life as seraphicly as you can cast over it that sunshine that may be able to dispell all the misreforms that the foregoing had made upon minds really & not pretendly tender for as these last only pride themselves in what they have not they will never be brought to own that an author's address can ravish from them what they think it an honour to pretend to.”

“The authors had little to say about the complete absence of institutional transformations in the economy and emphasise sabotage on the part of the nomenklatura as the principal cause for the "misreform".”

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