misexpressive

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mis- +‎ expressive

Adjective[edit]

misexpressive (comparative more misexpressive, superlative most misexpressive)

  1. 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).