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/mɪsˈkɒmɛnt/
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/mɪsˈkɒmənt/
Substantiv
A comment that is untrue.
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MORE mischief has been done to the cause of truth by mistranslations of, and consequent miscomments on the holy scripture, than is at first thought imagined or perceived.
Did reversible error occur as a result of prosecutorial miscomment during closing argument?
He said not to worry, that things were well in hand, and it was probably a miscomment.
Verb
To comment in error.
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Nicon answered : “All these writings are no better than old-wives' stories; for there are adduced here spurious canons, most vilely misunderstood and misinterpreted or miscommented upon.
In view of this and also of the fact that the real state of affairs is often deliberately misrepresented and miscommented on in various quarters, we take the liberty to outline conditions in the Polish oil industry, and subsequently to draw the notions which in our estimation ought to be the leading aim of the Polish industry's policy.
We say in esoterically knowing tones 'That is a very difficult question', or we proceed to explain that nobody could possibly understand what philosophy is without having studied it, or we discourse on the indefinability of philosophy with twenty-seven randomly chosen misdefinitions to help clarify the point, or — perhaps best of all — we trick the questioner into producing some misdefinition himself, which we can then attack, put down, analyse, confuse and generally miscomment on for as long as we and he can bear to continue.