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missuspect

verb

Etymology

From mis- + suspect.

  1. derived from suspectus
  2. derived from suspect
  3. prefixed as missuspect — “mis + suspect”

Definitions

  1. To suspect something that is not, in fact, the case.

    • Either plot would make an excellent Play, we merely prefer the financial fragment for the reason that missuspected marital infidelity is too closely a copy of plays like "The Thief” and “The Spendthrift."
    • I'll tell you why; because I can't, until I can locate some missuspecting town or something like that which doesn't know an elephant from a hole in the ground and which is yearning for the beginning of a zoo.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA