Misrecommend

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To recommend without good reason.

    "He did not apologize for it, nor make it a handmaid to something else, nor attempt to prove its practical value by an appeal to commercial motives, nor, in short give any of the thousand bad reasons by which stupid people habitually misrecommend good things."

Example

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"He did not apologize for it, nor make it a handmaid to something else, nor attempt to prove its practical value by an appeal to commercial motives, nor, in short give any of the thousand bad reasons by which stupid people habitually misrecommend good things."

Etymology

From mis- + recommend.

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