miscomment

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ comment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪsˈkɒmɛnt/, /mɪsˈkɒmənt/

Noun

miscomment (plural miscomments)

1. A comment that is untrue.
   • 1824, S H. Jackson, The Jew:

     MORE mischief has been done to the cause of truth by mistranslations of, and consequent miscomments on the holy scripture, than is at first thought imagined or perceived.

   • 1974, North western reporter:

     Did reversible error occur as a result of prosecutorial miscomment during closing argument?

   • 1987, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs, "Live Sighting" Reports of Americans Listed as Missing in Action in Southeast Asia, page 59:

     He said not to worry, that things were well in hand, and it was probably a miscomment.

Verb

miscomment (third-person singular simple present miscomments, present participle miscommenting, simple past and past participle miscommented)

1. To comment in error.
   • 1876, William Palmer, The Patriarch and the Tsar, page 714:

     Nicon answered : “All these writings are no better than old-wives' stories; for there are adduced here spurious canons, most vilely misunderstood and misinterpreted or miscommented upon.

   • 1921, Standard Daily Trade Service - Volumes 15-16, page 486:

     In view of this and also of the fact that the real state of affairs is often deliberately misrepresented and miscommented on in various quarters, we take the liberty to outline conditions in the Polish oil industry, and subsequently to draw the notions which in our estimation ought to be the leading aim of the Polish industry's policy.

   • 1979, Second Order - Volumes 8-9, page 3:

     We say in esoterically knowing tones 'That is a very difficult question', or we proceed to explain that nobody could possibly understand what philosophy is without having studied it, or we discourse on the indefinability of philosophy with twenty-seven randomly chosen misdefinitions to help clarify the point, or — perhaps best of all — we trick the questioner into producing some misdefinition himself, which we can then attack, put down, analyse, confuse and generally miscomment on for as long as we and he can bear to continue.