misimply

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ imply

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.
   • 1981, Clean Air Act Reform Symposium, page 42:

     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.

   • 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 North America, page 176:

     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.

   • 2019, David Lamas, Fernando Loizides, Lennart Nacke, Human-Computer Interaction, page 259:

     On our dataset, algorithms were much more likely to misimply that women were men, but not vice versa.