misaccuse

misaccuse

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ accuse

Verb

misaccuse (third-person singular simple present misaccuses, present participle misaccusing, simple past and past participle misaccused)

1. To accuse wrongly.
   • 1918, The bulletin of the Commercial Law League of America:

     I hold no brief for any disloyal person or persons that there is even any question about. but I say, let us be careful not to misaccuse or misjudge anyone.

   • 1996, Ronald Suresh Roberts, Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd, →ISBN:

     Naipaul commits the very sin of which he misaccuses the Indian novelists: the form of his work entails the worth of human life, while the infused vision denies it.

   • 2009, Daniel Vanderveken, Meaning and Speech Acts: Volume 1, Principles of Language Use, →ISBN:

     To calumniate is to accuse falsely with the perlocutionary intention to mislead and "misaccuse"

   • 2016, David McFadden, An Innocent in Cuba, →ISBN, page 348:

     To misaccuse the Basques was something the Spanish people could not abide, and they switched their vote to the socialists.