Meaning of missuspect | Babel Free

Definitions

To suspect something that is not, in fact, the case.

Examples

“Either plot would make⟳ an excellent Play⟳, we merely prefer⟳ the financial fragment for the reason⟳ that missuspected marital infidelity is too closely a copy⟳ of plays like⟳ "The Thief” and “The Spendthrift."”

“I'll tell⟳ you why; because I can't, until I can locate⟳ some missuspecting town or something like⟳ that which doesn't know⟳ an elephant from a hole in the ground and which is yearning for the beginning of a zoo.”

“"Mrs. Moysey" — the tragicomedy of a widow sadly missupspected, "Telling" — the almost unbearable tale of a gently insane boy murderer, and "The Working Party" — concerned with a young farm wife who, entertaining a huge "working party" of women, finally goes to pieces after trying to ignore⟳ a dead workman on her kitchen stairs are all warrant of a talent far greater than heretofore indicated.”

“I rely⟳ —wealthy prisoner with witness— on an effect that I missuspect is mine, since, unfortunately, I am a man.”

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