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misrecommending

misrecommending is the present participle and gerund of misrecommend.

Meaning of misrecommend

Verb

misrecommend (third-person singular simple present misrecommends, present participle misrecommending, simple past and past participle misrecommended)

  1. To recommend without good reason.
    • He did not apologize for it, nor make it a handmaid to something else, nor attempt to prove its practical value by an appeal to commercial motives, nor, in short give any of the thousand bad reasons by which stupid people habitually misrecommend good things.1931, Music Educators National Conference (U.S.), Yearbook, page 18

Questions about misrecommending

What is misrecommending the present participle and gerund of?
Misrecommending is the present participle and gerund of misrecommend.

Words near misrecommending in the dictionary

  1. misrecollection
  2. misrecollections
  3. misrecollects
  4. misrecommend
  5. misrecommended
  6. misrecommending
  7. misrecommends
  8. misrecord
  9. misrecorded
  10. misrecording
  11. misrecords

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misrecommending (page history and authors); misrecommend (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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