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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

misimply en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + imply.

Meanings

  1. To imply something that is not true.
    • On our dataset, algorithms were much more likely to misimply that women were men, but not vice versa. 2019, David Lamas, Fernando Loizides, Lennart Nacke, Human-Computer Interaction, page 259:
    • He was not supposed to call up Justice, so that they might misimply that that was some kind of a pressure being put on them. 1997, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Administration's Efforts Against the Influence of Organized Crime in the Laborer's International Union of North America, page 176:
    • I'm sorry, I feel I have to comment. I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea. I am sure Blake didn't mean to misimply. 1981, Clean Air Act Reform Symposium, page 42:

Forms

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misimplies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
misimplying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misimplied Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
misimplied Tense=Past lexicographic