misblame

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ blame.

Verb

misblame (third-person singular simple present misblames, present participle misblaming, simple past and past participle misblamed)

1. To blame wrongly; to blame one who is not guilty.
   • 1981, Michael Spence Lowdell Morris, The Morality of Brutality, page 6:

     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.

   • 1983, Beth Hammond, Lord, Help Me!-- the Desperate Dieter, page 66:

     I need to remember that I am responsible for my feelings. I have often misblamed another for my bad emotional state.

   • 2013, Philip David Zelazo, The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology, Vol. 2:

     The latter group misinterprets ambiguous social stimuli, misblames others, and often responds with inappropriate anger-aggravated hostility.

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