Meanings
- uncountableThe process of sending mismessages.
Pressures tend to rely heavily on messaging as well as mismessaging.
2018, Kay Wills Wyma, Not the Boss of Us2 more examples
Anyone linking Jesus to business is in danger, at first glance, of contributing to the same mismessaging that caused him to overturn the money-changers tables in the temple.
2007, Laurie Beth Jones, Jesus, Entrepreneur, page 251Specifically, the chapter examines the role of drug users in the Brazilian epidemic, the current state of prevention and treatment initiatives targetted to this population, and the nature of HIV testing available to drug users, especially oral HIV testing, and presents suggestive findings from a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded multimethod study of mismessaging in oral HIV testing among drug users in Rio de Janeiro that have direct implications for HIV prevention in Brazil.
2014, Cynthia Pope, Renee T. White, Robert Malow, HIV/AIDS: Global Frontiers in Prevention/Intervention
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