"misrecommend" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: misrecommends [present, singular, third-person], misrecommending [participle, present], misrecommended [participle, past], misrecommended [past]
Etymology: mis- + recommend Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|recommend}} mis- + recommend Head templates: {{en-verb}} misrecommend (third-person singular simple present misrecommends, present participle misrecommending, simple past and past participle misrecommended)
  1. To recommend without good reason.
    Sense id: en-misrecommend-en-verb-tGsrbO~r Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with mis-

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for misrecommend meaning in English (2.1kB)

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          "text": "But this observation does not seem of great interest to Hieronymus, who goes on to say that spiritually it relates to the task of writing books on the holy scriptures which will be wasted if it falls into the hands of stupid fools, who, in the perversity of their hearts, will misinterpret and misrecommend the wise man) .",
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