Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who gives wrong information.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who gives untrue or incorrect information.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
misinforms .
Etymologies
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Examples
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More appropriately known as misinformer (or at the best misinformed) methinks! report this
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Serial misinformer Betsy McCaughey -- who has been caught making patently false claims against health care reform time and again -- should take some time off from "policy analysis" and enroll in a Learning Annex class to improve reading comprehension.
Karl Frisch: How About Some New Year's Resolutions for the Right-Wing Media Machine? 2010
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On CNBC, serial misinformer Betsy McCaughey again advanced a falsehood about health care reform, claiming that the "legislation that's now in Congress will force everyone under age 65 to buy the same one-size-fits-all government plan" and that "Page 16" of the House bill "says you must be enrolled in a qualified plan."
McCaughey returns to CNBC with another false health care attack 2009
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Chris can take heart that he earned the Media Matters "misinformer of the year" so it's not like his stand-out performance went unrewarded.
Hullabaloo 2005
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Chris can take heart that he earned the Media Matters "misinformer of the year" so it's not like his stand-out performance went unrewarded.
Hullabaloo 2005
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Chris can take heart that he earned the Media Matters "misinformer of the year" so it's not like his stand-out performance went unrewarded.
Hullabaloo 2005
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Nice to see the followers of the fear mongering Fox News serial misinformer Glenn Beck crowd has made it into our census business.
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Serial health care reform misinformer Betsy McCaughey falsely claimed that, under the Senate health care reform bill, "for the first time in history, government officials are given power over how doctors treat privately insured patients."
Blogrunner 2010
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Although this usage is correct, for some kinds of denialism, especially the man dying of AIDS who does not believe in science, but also for some people who refuse to read about climatology, it fails to properly describe the conscious manipulator and misinformer.
RealClimate Completely Fed Up 2010
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Nice to see the followers of the fear mongering Fox News serial misinformer Glenn Beck crowd has made it into our census business.
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