misconnote

To connote incorrectly; to imply something that is not true or valid.

Verb

  1. To connote incorrectly; to imply something that is not true or valid.
    • 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...
    • 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:
    • 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,...

Origin

From mis- + connote.

Forms

misconnotes misconnoting misconnoted