(v. t.) To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.
(v. i.) To give untrue information; (with against) to calumniate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some international coverage of the outbreak was accused of misinforming western readers.
(2) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.
(3) The subjects' responses revealed their lack of information as well as a great deal of misinformation.
(4) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
(5) Twenty of the girls knew how conception occurs and 24 knew about modern methods of contraception, although none was used; many of them were misinformed.
(6) Nutrition misinformation wastes billions of dollars every year but the greatest harm occurs when needed medical intervention is delayed or ignored.
(7) The most important finding was the considerable misinformation about and noncompliance with malaria prophylaxis.
(8) A total of 376 (25.1%) questionnaires were filled out incorrectly and 63 of these (16.8%) had major misinformation about medical history.
(9) Their refusal to condemn him reinforces myths and misinformation about rape – they don't seem to understand that the law is very clear that if someone is too drunk or otherwise incapacitated to consent, it is rape."
(10) Yet by reassuring the public that things aren't too bad, Monbiot and others at best misinform, and at worst misrepresent or distort, the scientific evidence of the harmful effects of radiation exposure – and they play a predictable shoot-the-messenger game in the process.
(11) He acknowledged there had been "failures" and that there was "misinformation and misunderstanding" surrounding the bill.
(12) Nutrition knowledge and misinformation, supplement use, and sources of nutrition information were also investigated.
(13) "As global action on climate change deepens, propaganda aimed at misinforming the public about climate change, and so blunting any action, increases."
(14) Blair is already facing a backlash from Conservative ministers and some on the remain side for arguing that people were misinformed when they voted for Brexit.
(15) These highly fragmented replied with the characteristics of misinformation about AIDS are also compatible with situations that could carry risks for the laborers.
(16) All that said, there are still some basic facts to contend with that do suggest many Republican voters believe things that are either misinformed or absurd or both.
(17) Nevertheless, social media is open to misinformation, baseless rumours, hate speech and conspiracy theories.
(18) They point to Education for health as a means for health professionals to prevent problems arising from misinformation to people under medical attendance.
(19) Earlier on Tuesday, one of the leading legislative critics of the NSA's bulk surveillance on Americans' phone records, Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, attacked both the surveillance and what he described as a "culture of misinformation" by administration and intelligence officials about it.
(20) From the very nature of monitoring physiological quantities there will be much misinformation or 'noise' superimposed on the raw signal obtained from the patient.
Misle
Definition:
(v. i.) To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle.
(n.) A fine rain; a thick mist; mizzle.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to shareholder Marvin Pearlstein, in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, the Canadian-based BlackBerry, formerly Research In Motion Ltd, misled investors last year by saying the company was "progressing on its financial and operational commitments," and that previews of its BlackBerry 10 platform had been well received by developers.
(2) However, evidence obtained by the committee showed the document had "deliberately misled" the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), she said.
(3) Asked if he thought the committee had been misled, Whittingdale replied: "I'm not sure yet."
(4) "The suggestion that I deliberately misled the committee and refused to apologise are both untrue and unfair," she wrote in a letter to Keith Vaz, the committee's chairman.
(5) • Crone and the former NoW editor Colin Myler "misled the committee by answering questions falsely about their knowledge of evidence that other News of the World employees had been involved in phone-hacking and other wrongdoing".
(6) People might have died if the public had been misled on that point.
(7) Chief among them is that the administration misled the American people about the nature of the attack during a presidential election campaign and stonewalled congressional investigators.
(8) The Speaker, John Bercow, is certain to grant an urgent statement to MPs requiring ministers to explain whether they have misled the house, or acted in breach of a parliamentary resolution.
(9) As Alan Johnson came close today to accusing Scotland Yard of having misled him over the scandal, a leaked Home Office memo shows that the last government decided against calling in Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary after intense internal lobbying.
(10) Your article ( Senior police officer 'misled parliament' over phone hacking , 11 March) repeats comments made by Chris Bryant MP in Thursday's debate in the Commons.
(11) Duncan Smith and David Cameron have brushed aside claims that MPs were still being misled about UC's progress after the head of the civil service on Monday said the business case for universal credit had not been signed off by the Treasury.
(12) Asked by BBC Radio 4's Media Show if she thought the committee had previously been misled, Hodge said: "We will have to discover that next Monday.
(13) "I am amazed that the case is being made that in some way these students, misled, going into a most dangerous place – perhaps the most dangerous place on Earth – should be forced to allow a programme to take place that they oppose," he said.
(14) In the House of Commons last week, Chris Bryant MP said that Yates had misled the committees by claiming that it is illegal to hack voicemail messages only if they have not already been heard by the intended recipient.
(15) Deutsche Bank share price In a similar case, rival Goldman Sachs agreed in April to pay $5.06 billion to settle claims that it misled mortgage bond investors during the financial crisis.
(16) "One way of reading the contradictory explanations between the sergeant at arms and what the DPP has said is that the police misled her, and I think that's a very serious issue which needs to be looked into," he told Sky News.
(17) In a recent statement, the PCC denied that it had been "materially misled" by accepting previous assurances from the News of the World that Goodman had "acted alone".
(18) Two years ago the PCC published a report following allegations it was misled by the News of the World during an inquiry into phone hacking at the paper it conducted in 2007.
(19) "It's the people who were persuaded to vote no who were misled, who were gulled, who were tricked effectively.
(20) "The commission came to a view – based on the information available at the time – as to whether it had been misled by the News of the World.