mispublicize

present singular third person mispublicizes · participle present mispublicizing · participle past mispublicized · past mispublicized

1. To publicize in a misleading, biased, or inaccurate manner.

   It's quite true that Korea has been mispublicized in the United States especially.

   1984, Association for Corporate Growth, Intergrowth, page 45

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   The whole problem of cosmetic surgery has in the past had a rather unfavorable light cast upon it because it has been misused and mispublicized.

   1954, The Journal of the Florida Medical Association, page 633

   Without careful assessment of impact and modification of communications, it is quite possible through mass media to mispublicize or overpublicize.

   1974, Eugene Litwak, Cheryl Elise Mickelson, Henry Joseph Meyer, School, Family, and Neighborhood, page 249

   At the school board's September 19 meeting, James Detwiler claimed that the board's 1954 decision to no longer contribute to the Jeanes Library has been “mispublicized” all these years. It had nothing to do with Knowles's refusual to sign a Loyalty Oath, he said, not at all.

   2018, Allison Hepler, McCarthyism in the Suburbs, page 162