Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To provide with incorrect information.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To inform erroneously or falsely; make a wrong statement to; give wrong or misleading instruction to.
- To testify falsely; make false or misleading statements.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.
- intransitive verb rare To give untrue information; (with
against ) to calumniate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive to give or
deliver false , fake, ormisleading information withintent todeceive
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give false or misleading information to
Etymologies
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Examples
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They do nothing but misinform, that is their mission.
The Jawa Report 2009
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They do nothing but misinform, that is their mission.
The Jawa Report 2009
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They do nothing but misinform, that is their mission.
The Jawa Report 2009
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"misinform", but to grant the Platform these "Powers of Misinformation", you have to assume that everyone using it is a simpleton just waiting to be tricked by the next conspiracy theorist that creates a Twitter account.
O'Reilly News 2009
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"misinform", but to grant the Platform these "Powers of Misinformation", you have to assume that everyone using it is a simpleton just waiting to be tricked by the next conspiracy theorist that creates a Twitter account.
O'Reilly News 2009
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Who are you to misinform people you do not know in this flippant manner?
Treating Food/Water Poisoning in Mexico, or Any Other Place 2009
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Who are you to misinform people you do not know in this flippant manner?
Treating Food/Water Poisoning in Mexico, or Any Other Place 2009
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Its sad to see that these candidates raise millions of dollars and use it to smear, misdirect, misinform, the opposition to win a chair at the power table!
Pennsylvania Senate hopeful releases fundraising totals 2010
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Who are you to misinform people you do not know in this flippant manner?
Treating Food/Water Poisoning in Mexico, or Any Other Place 2009
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Who are you to misinform people you do not know in this flippant manner?
Treating Food/Water Poisoning in Mexico, or Any Other Place 2009
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