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misinform
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Word definitions for misinform in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misinform \Mis`in*form"\, v. i. To give untrue information; (with against) to calumniate. [R.] --Bp. Montagu.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ He's either badly misinformed or willfully lying.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c.; see mis- (1) + inform . Related: Misinformed ; misinforming .
Usage examples of misinform.
I had been misinformed, or you should have had no occasion to think me rude.
Buchan blithely misinformed reporters in the gymnasium of Crawford Middle School, which served as the press filing center.
Their warm bodies misinformed any heat-sensing devices swept over the fields by occasional flying troops, as well.
I doubt the American public is ready for a blood-drinking Casanova to triumph over the well-intentioned, if slightly misinformed, Dr.
The current Bush administration may be also misinforming the public in its efforts to justify a possible second war with Saddam Hussein.
His killings, every one, had been committed against people associated with the underworld, or against misinformed do-gooders who had somehow become entangled in the wrong mess, impeding the assassin's progress.
If Morikawa had visions of apes wielding soldering irons on a microelectronic assembly line, building TVs and hi-fl sets, he was sorely misinformed.
Conway had never believed in misinforming his patients, by word or deed or omission, and he did not want to do so to another medic.
From what Earl had heard of Wexlersh and Manuello, it would be like them to screw up, to come charging in here misinformed, confused, operating under the gross misapprehension that they had not merely been sent to protect the McCaffreys but to arrest him as well.