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misconnote en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + connote.

Meanings

1. To connote incorrectly; to imply something that is not true or valid.
   • 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. 2014, Tracy Fessenden, Nicholas F. Radel, Magdalena J. Zaborowska, The Puritan Origins of American Sex, page 152:
   • 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. 1978, Carol Ann Cohen, An Investigation of the History and Background of Surrealism and Antonin Artaud's Place Within the Movement:
   • Any attempts at centralization on regional or crop basis may be misconnoted with political undertones. 1997, Adedotun O. Phillips, Tunji Titilola, Sunday O. Titilola, Nigeria in two thousand and ten, page 71:

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