misimply

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verb

To imply something that is not true.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

verbmisimply (third-person singular simple present misimplies, present participle misimplying, simple past and past participle misimplied)

present singular third person misimplies · participle present misimplying · participle past misimplied · past misimplied

  1. To imply something that is not true.

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

    2019, David Lamas, Fernando Loizides, Lennart Nacke, Human-Computer Interaction, page 259
    2 more examples

    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.

    1981, Clean Air Act Reform Symposium, page 42

    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.

    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

Origin

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “misimply,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/misimply.

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