(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.
Mislead
Definition:
(v. t.) To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both condemn the treatment of Ibrahim, whose supposed offence appears to have shifted over time, from fabricating a defamatory story to entering a home without permission to misleading an interviewee for an article that was never published.
(2) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
(3) The use of 100% oxygen to calculate intrapulmonary shunting in patients on PEEP is misleading in both physiological and methodological terms.
(4) David Cameron was accused of revealing his ill-suppressed Bullingdon Club instincts when he shouted at the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle to "calm down, dear" as she berated him for misleading MPs at prime minister's questions.
(5) The derived data lacks specificity, however, and, as such, is frequently misleading.
(6) Families believed that physicians would not listen (13% of sample), would not talk openly (32%), attempted to mislead them (48%), or did not warn about long-term neurodevelopmental problems (70%).
(7) Serological findings in five cases where Paul-Bunnel Davidsohn (PBD) test results were misleading, are presented.
(8) Second, the commonly drawn analogy between blocking in randomized trials and matching in cohort studies is misleading when one considers the impact of matching on covariate distributions.
(9) In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and that a misguided strategy could damage rather than help Israel's victims.
(10) At the end of the article the Department for Work and Pensions is quoted as saying that it’s “misleading to link food bank use to benefit delays and sanctions”.
(11) The authors argue that these "principles" do not function as claimed, and that their use is misleading both practically and theoretically.
(12) They claim that Zero Dark Thirty is "grossly inaccurate and misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the capture".
(13) The European court of human rights has accused British newspapers, including the Daily Mail, of publishing "seriously misleading" reports.
(14) This report indicates that hepatic copper levels vary greatly in acute liver failure, and that estimates from a single biopsy specimen may be misleading as to the cause of the underlying liver disease.
(15) Maybe the claimants were politicians who took a strict stance on moral issues, or people who had misleadingly used their family image to seek office or commercial gain?
(16) However, in a demonstration of the intense secrecy surrounding NSA surveillance even after Edward Snowden's revelations, the senators claimed they could not publicly identify the allegedly misleading section or sections of a factsheet without compromising classified information.
(17) Again, the government is deliberately misleading the public by aggregating figures over an area which no one would describe as theirs.
(18) But the Tories edited out a crucial final sentence in which Balls told BBC Radio Leeds on 9 January : “But I think we can be tougher and we should be and we will.” Labour seized on the Tory editing of the Balls interview to accuse the Tories of misleading people to defend their refusal to tackle tax avoidance.
(19) We therefore conclude that the clinical management of bronchiolitis requires close monitoring of body wt and plasma osmolality-urinary osmolality relationship; serum sodium levels may be misleading.
(20) It is not only the misleading newspaper headlines about this U-turn which are causing confusion.