misinform
verb (used with object)
to give false or misleading information to.
had misinformed
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past perfectof misinform.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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“I had unknowingly passed along false information,” Mr. McClellan wrote, adding that five of the highest-ranking White House officials, including the president, had misinformed him.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2019
This time the Mail on Sunday’s “significantly misleading statements” were so bad that they were censured, though not before they had misinformed millions of people.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2017
The spokeswoman then acknowledged that she had misinformed the press corps.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2017
My Lonely Planet guide to West Africa had misinformed me that a weekly passenger ferry made the same route.
From The New Yorker ● May 27, 2015
This, to my utter dismay, he at first consented to do, but presently observed that probably his ears had misinformed him.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
