misconnote

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ connote.

Verb

misconnote (third-person singular simple present misconnotes, present participle misconnoting, simple past and past participle misconnoted)

  1. To connote incorrectly; to imply something that is not true or valid.
    • 1978, Carol Ann Cohen, An Investigation of the History and Background of Surrealism and Antonin Artaud's Place Within the Movement:
      Actors themselves must be acutely aware of what gestures or modes of speech will produce what Indicators and Sensors, for a movement that misconnotes a Sensor would be detrimental to the audiences' comprehension of the drama.
    • 1997, Adedotun O. Phillips, Tunji Titilola, Sunday O. Titilola, Nigeria in two thousand and ten, page 71:
      Any attempts at centralization on regional or crop basis may be misconnoted with political undertones.
    • 2014, Tracy Fessenden, Nicholas F. Radel, Magdalena J. Zaborowska, The Puritan Origins of American Sex, page 152:
      It is pleasurable to think about white men's bodies because white men's bodies misconnote the body of men that is the nation in all its exclusivity.