misexpressive
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
mis- + expressive
Adjective[edit]
misexpressive (comparative more misexpressive, superlative most misexpressive)
- Wrongly expressive; expressing the wrong meaning.
- 1873, John Austin, Lectures on Jurisprudence: Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law, page 542:
- But the terms promulged and unpromulged, as thus applied, are not less misexpressive than written and unwritten (sensu juridico).