misrespond

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ respond

Verb

misrespond (third-person singular simple present misresponds, present participle misresponding, simple past and past participle misresponded)

1. To respond incorrectly or inappropriately.
   • 1989, Harold J. Leavitt, Louis R. Pondy, David M. Boje, Readings in Managerial Psychology, page 371:

     Listeners therefore may misunderstand and misrespond to locutionary acts.

   • 2017, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Transportation Research Board, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Improving Motor Carrier Safety Measurement, page 117:

     This might mean exerting greater pressure on carriers to report APU and VMT more often, maybe annually, and possibly by fining carriers that either fail to respond or are found to intentionally misrespond (possibly as a result of an investigation).

   • 2020, Carl David Mildenberger, Commutative Justice: A Liberal Theory of Just Exchange:

     Instead of evaluating gestational labor according to the norms of love, wonder, admiration, or awe and responding appropriately to this kind of value, we misevaluate it based on market norms and misrespond to the value present in the good exchanged with a desire to use (i.e. the typical evaluative response for market transactions).