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misimply

misimply verb: to imply something that is not true.

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.
    • I'm sorry, I feel I have to comment. I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea. I am sure Blake didn't mean to misimply.1981, Clean Air Act Reform Symposium, page 42
    • 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.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...

Forms of misimply

third-person singular presentmisimplies
present participlemisimplying
past participlemisimplied
pastmisimplied

Origin of misimply

From mis- + imply.

Questions about misimply

What does misimply mean?
Misimply means to imply something that is not true.
What part of speech is misimply?
Misimply is a verb.
What is the past tense of misimply?
The past tense of misimply is misimplied.

Words near misimply in the dictionary

  1. misimplements
  2. misimplication
  3. misimplications
  4. misimplied
  5. misimplies
  6. misimply
  7. misimplying
  8. misimpression
  9. misimpressions
  10. misimprint
  11. misimprinted

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