Word Meanings - MISREPUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.

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• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• WRONG
  imp. of Wring. Wrung. Chaucer.
• REPUTE
  1. Character reputed or attributed; reputation, whether good or bad; established opinion; public estimate. He who regns Monarch in heaven, till then as one secure Sat on his throne, upheld by old repute. Milton. 2. Specifically: Good character
• WRONGLESS
  Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
• ESTIMATION
  1. The act of estimating. Shak. 2. An opinion or judgment of the worth, extent, or quantity of anything, formed without using precise data; valuation; as, estimations of distance, magnitude, amount, or moral qualities. If he be poorer that thy
• WRONGDOING
  Evil or wicked behavior or action.
• ESTIMATE
  1. To judge and form an opinion of the value of, from imperfect data, -- either the extrinsic , or intrinsic , value; to fix the worth of roughly or in a general way; as, to estimate the value of goods or land; to estimate the worth or talents
• REPUTELESS
  Not having good repute; disreputable; disgraceful; inglorius. Shak.
• WRONGFUL
  Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n.
• WRONGHEAD
  A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character.
• WRONG-TIMED
  Done at an improper time; ill-timed.
• REPUTEDLY
  In common opinion or estimation; by repute.
• WRONGNESS
  The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault. The best great wrongnesses within themselves. Bp. Butler. The rightness or wrongness of this view. Latham.
• WRONGDOER
  One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor. Ayliffe. (more info) 1. One who injures another, or who does wrong.
• WRONGLY
  In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
• WRONGHEADED
  Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse. -- Wrong"head`ed*ly, adv. -- Wrong"head`ed*ness, n. Macaulay.
• WRONGER
  One who wrongs or injures another. Shak. "Wrongers of the world." Tennyson.
• OVERESTIMATE
  To estimate too highly; to overvalue.
• MISREPUTE
  To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.
• MISESTIMATE
  To estimate erroneously. J. S. Mill.
• SELF-ESTIMATION
  The act of estimating one's self; self-esteem.
• AWRONG
  Wrongly. Ford.
• UNDERESTIMATE
  To set to
• DISREPUTE
  Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit. At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Disesteem; discredit; dishonor; disgrace.
• SELF-WRONG
  Wrong done by a person himself. Shak.
• DISESTIMATION
  Disesteem.