"missuggest" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: missuggests [present, singular, third-person], missuggesting [participle, present], missuggested [participle, past], missuggested [past]
Etymology: mis- + suggest Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|suggest}} mis- + suggest Head templates: {{en-verb}} missuggest (third-person singular simple present missuggests, present participle missuggesting, simple past and past participle missuggested)
  1. To make a missuggestion; to suggest erroneously.
    Sense id: en-missuggest-en-verb-jlhtHoq8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with mis-

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for missuggest meaning in English (2.4kB)

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          "ref": "1967, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the District of Columbia, Anticrime Legislation, page 38",
          "text": "Correct me if I am missuggesting; you stated that there were 28,000 actual serious crimes committed in 1965 —I believe it was that year — and only 1,000 convictions , which means that the chances are, roughly, 28 to 1 of getting off scot free — that one can commit an act of violence, a serious crime, and have a good chance of getting off.",
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          "ref": "1982, Proceedings of the Representative Assembly of the National Education Association of the United States, page 16",
          "text": "That means to contend with the skeptic in the faculty lounge, to contend with the cynic at the cocktail party or Sunday picnic, to contend with the administrator who misdirects, or with my colleague who missuggests, or with the legislator who misrepresents, or with the politician who misleads.",
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          "ref": "1993, N. J. Lygidakis, Masatoshi Makuuchi, Pitfalls and Complications in the Diagnosis and Management of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Diseases, page 319",
          "text": "In cases of such collateral circulation, celiac arteriograms may missuggest encasement of the arcades and GDA because of non-visualization of the arteries ( Fig. 11.30b ).",
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