Missuspect

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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.

"Mrs. Moysey" — the tragicomedy of a widow sadly missupspected, "Telling" — the almost unbearable tale of a gently insane boy murderer, and "The Working Party" — concerned with a young farm wife who, entertaining a huge "working party" of women, finally goes to pieces after trying to ignore a dead workman on her kitchen stairs are all warrant of a talent far greater than heretofore indicated.

I rely —wealthy prisoner with witness— on an effect that I missuspect is mine, since, unfortunately, I am a man.

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Antonyms for missuspect

Word Forms

• missuspects
• missuspecting
• missuspected

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