- Misexplanation
- Misexplanation Mis*ex`pla*na"tion, n. An erroneous explanation. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Misexplanation
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misexplanation — index catachresis, distortion, misapplication Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
misapplication — I noun abuse, corrupt use, dishonest application, dishonest use, distortion, errancy, error, extravagance, false construction, fraudulent application, idle expenditure, illegal application, improper use, impropriety, incorrect application,… … Law dictionary
catachresis — noun distortion, exaggeration, false coloring, false construction, false reading, garbling, incorrect usage, misapplication, misapprehension, miscitation, misconception, misconstruction, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition,… … Law dictionary
distortion — I noun anamorphosis, camouflage, caricature, contortion, convolution, deception, deformation, deformity, disguise, disparity, disproportion, dissemblance, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distortio, embroidery, enlargement, exaggeration, expansion,… … Law dictionary
distortion — Synonyms and related words: aberrancy, aberration, abstractionism, abuse of terms, anamorphosis, apparent soundness, bad likeness, birdies, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, blooping, blurping, botch, bulla, burlesque, caricature,… … Moby Thesaurus
error — Synonyms and related words: ALGOL, Albigensianism, Arianism, COBOL, Catharism, Ebionitism, Erastianism, FORTRAN, Gnosticism, Jovinianism, Lollardy, Manichaeanism, Manichaeism, Monophysism, Monophysitism, Pelagianism, Waldensianism, Wyclifism,… … Moby Thesaurus
gloss — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, acting, affectation, afterglow, air glow, alibi, allowance, amplification, analysis, annotate, annotation, apology, apparatus criticus, appearance, apply paint, attitudinizing, bedaub, bedizen, begild,… … Moby Thesaurus
misapplication — Synonyms and related words: aberrancy, aberration, abuse, abuse of office, abuse of terms, apparent soundness, befoulment, casuistry, catachresis, circularity, contorting, conversion, corrupt administration, debasement, defalcation, defectiveness … Moby Thesaurus
misapprehension — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, catachresis, clerical error, contorting, corrigendum, distortion, eisegesis, erratum, error, failure, fault, faute, garbling, gloss, human error, malentendu, malobservation, misapplication,… … Moby Thesaurus
misconception — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, airy nothing, autism, bubble, catachresis, chimera, clerical error, contorting, corrigendum, daydream, deception, deluded belief, delusion, dereism, distortion, dream, dream vision, dreamland,… … Moby Thesaurus
