Misblame

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To blame wrongly; to blame one who is not guilty.

    "It would focus rather on those who in the terrible spotlight of hindsight could be misblamed for the tragedies in the first place. Americans in Vietnam, unilateralists in Rhodesia, those who maintain the modern partitions of an ancient Holy Land."

Example

More examples

"It would focus rather on those who in the terrible spotlight of hindsight could be misblamed for the tragedies in the first place. Americans in Vietnam, unilateralists in Rhodesia, those who maintain the modern partitions of an ancient Holy Land."

Etymology

From mis- + blame.

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