misaccuse
Verb
To accuse wrongly.
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I hold no brief for any disloyal person or persons that there is even any question about. but I say, let us be careful not to misaccuse or misjudge anyone.
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Naipaul commits the very sin of which he misaccuses the Indian novelists: the form of his work entails the worth of human life, while the infused vision denies it.
To calumniate is to accuse falsely with the perlocutionary intention to mislead and "misaccuse"
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To misaccuse the Basques was something the Spanish people could not abide, and they switched their vote to the socialists.
Word forms
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