misaccuse
verbEtymology From mis- + accuse.
1
To accuse wrongly.
- 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:
2 more examples
- 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:
- 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:
- Derived terms
- misaccusation