misaccuse

present singular third person misaccuses · participle present misaccusing · participle past misaccused · past misaccused

1. To accuse wrongly.

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

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

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   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.

   1918, The bulletin of the Commercial Law League of America

   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.

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

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

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