How to Use misinform in a Sentence

misinform

verb

• Most do not take it — many don’t know about it or have been misinformed about its side effects.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• While growers could be misinformed about seed sources, DNA doesn’t lie.
  — Benjamin Adams, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• The union accused the government of denying the attacks and misinforming the public for three months.
  — Sune Engel Rasmussen, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• If fake news is meant to misinform people, fake fights are designed to divide and distract.
  — Alfred Ng, CBS News, 30 Oct. 2017
• This is the inevitable result of a concerted, bad faith effort to misinform the public about the Covid-19 vaccine.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2022
• The plane’s flight director was faulty; the air traffic controller was distracted; the crew had been misinformed about the weather.
  — Ellen Barry Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• But not all the year’s fake health news was hopeful; a more sinister message misinformed the topic of vaccines.
  — NBC News, 29 Dec. 2019
• If the virus does indeed resurge and states need to shut down again, people may not comply, because they’ll be misinformed and distrustful.
  — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 20 May 2020
• Sources may have misinformed him, may have faulty memories, or may have agendas.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2018
• Or, worse, the station chose to misinform its audience because, why not?!
  — Felice León, The Root, 23 May 2018
• Miller also worries that some posts may be designed to misinform and confuse.
  — Naomi Thomas, CNN, 13 July 2022
• Quartz is watching for efforts to misinform or confuse people around the census.
  — Hanna Kozlowska, Quartz, 23 Jan. 2020
• The bad news is that the same platforms that are used to inform can also be used by others with their own agendas to misinform and thereby lengthen or worsen the crisis.
  — Edward Segal, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• Attempts to misinform the public in 2016 included claims that mailing in a ballot wouldn’t count, that certain polling places would be closed and that there were long lines to vote, Benson said.
  — Ashley Nerbovig, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2020
• That was mostly due to being misinformed, unaware or trusting the labels of products.
  — Rachel Nussbaum, Glamour, 15 May 2018
• For his part, Mr. Trump has continually made false statements and misinformed the public about the severity of a virus that has left at least 37 people in the United States dead.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
• The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda.
  — Darrel Rowland, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2020
• Litterst, the Park Service spokesman, said that person was mistaken or misinformed.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 31 Jan. 2018
• Rappler found the best way to combat these attacks was to track how the disinformation campaigns worked, to try and show the public precisely how they were being misinformed.
  — Hunter Holcombe, CBS News, 27 June 2019
• There is no incentive for the employees to misinform or mislead people.
  — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 18 June 2023
• And who would want that dangerous message spreading across the land, poisoning young minds and misinforming the credulous?
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 21 June 2023
• But many patrol officers across Dallas County aren’t aware or have been misinformed about the option provided by the center.
  — Josephine Peterson, Dallas News, 9 Mar. 2023
• The assistant shouldn’t leak Apple news before the company is ready to release it and should not misinform users if there’s no virtual keynote scheduled for next week.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 13 Apr. 2021
• In theory, a group hoping to misinform voters could infiltrate a campaign and, when the moment is right, alter messages.
  — Wired Opinion, Wired, 4 Apr. 2020
• Often times holistic health can be an area of medicine that is misunderstood or misinformed, according to Ekpema.
  — Savannah Mehrtens, Houston Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2020
• Is this member misinforming me for some unknown reason?
  — Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2023
• Timely search engine optimization tactics can help push a fake news story to the top of the Google results for an hour, a day or an entire news cycle, in the process misinforming a great many Internet users.
  — Dipayan Ghosh and Ben Scott, Time, 24 Jan. 2018
• Given the volume of search queries on Google, this stirred up concerns about the company moving too fast to incorporate large language models (LLMs) and misinforming the public.
  — Emily Dreibelbis, PCMAG, 21 Mar. 2023
• While there are politicians and reports that don't tell the full story or misconstrue facts, neither the government or the media are actively working to misinform the public about the coronavirus.
  — Adrienne Dunn, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2020
• By misinforming readers, the JAMA study undermined the great work that drug companies are doing today.
  — Peter J. Pitts, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024