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mispublicize

mispublicize verb: to publicize in a misleading, biased, or inaccurate manner.

Verb

mispublicize (third-person singular simple present mispublicizes, present participle mispublicizing, simple past and past participle mispublicized)

  1. To publicize in a misleading, biased, or inaccurate manner.
    • The whole problem of cosmetic surgery has in the past had a rather unfavorable light cast upon it because it has been misused and mispublicized.1954, The Journal of the Florida Medical Association, page 633
    • Without careful assessment of impact and modification of communications, it is quite possible through mass media to mispublicize or overpublicize.1974, Eugene Litwak, Cheryl Elise Mickelson, Henry Joseph Meyer, School, Family, and Neighborhood, page 249

Examples of mispublicize in a sentence

  • It's quite true that Korea has been mispublicized in the United States especially.1984, Association for Corporate Growth, Intergrowth, page 45:
  • At the school board's September 19 meeting, James Detwiler claimed that the board's 1954 decision to no longer contribute to the Jeanes Library has been “mispublicized” all these years.2018, Allison Hepler, McCarthyism in the Suburbs, page 162:

Forms of mispublicize

third-person singular presentmispublicizes
present participlemispublicizing
past participlemispublicized
pastmispublicized

Origin of mispublicize

From mis- + publicize.

Questions about mispublicize

What does mispublicize mean?
Mispublicize means to publicize in a misleading, biased, or inaccurate manner.
How do you use mispublicize in a sentence?
It's quite true that Korea has been mispublicized in the United States especially.
What part of speech is mispublicize?
Mispublicize is a verb.
What is the past tense of mispublicize?
The past tense of mispublicize is mispublicized.

Words near mispublicize in the dictionary

  1. misprovide
  2. misprovided
  3. misprovides
  4. misproviding
  5. misproving
  6. mispublicize
  7. mispublicized
  8. mispublicizes
  9. mispublicizing
  10. mispublish
  11. mispublished

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