Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To frame wrongly or amiss.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To frame wrongly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
frame wrongly.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
mis- + frame
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Examples
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But because they miss or misunderstand the psychology of judicial decision making, they misframe the central question we should ask about any judge: is she wise?
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I point this out because I think we misframe the relationship when we speak of this as a choice between "money to pay for assistance, no money to pay for assistance and thus a burden."
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I point this out because I think we misframe the relationship when we speak of this as a choice between "money to pay for assistance, no money to pay for assistance and thus a burden."
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Opponents of bankruptcy modification often misframe the issue, whether deliberately or ignorantly.
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