"misimply" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: misimplies [present, singular, third-person], misimplying [participle, present], misimplied [participle, past], misimplied [past]
Etymology: From mis- + imply. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|imply}} mis- + imply Head templates: {{en-verb}} misimply (third-person singular simple present misimplies, present participle misimplying, simple past and past participle misimplied)
  1. To imply something that is not true.

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1997, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Administration's Efforts Against the Influence of Organized Crime in the Laborer's International Union of North America, page 176:",
          "text": "He was not supposed to call up Justice, so that they might misimply that that was some kind of a pressure being put on them.",
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