misdefine

For example, misdefine money as wealth say gold or silver and the wealthy will control both their assets AND the money system, and therefore the nation.

Stephen Zarlenga: Part III: How the Economists Facilitated the Crisis and Must Now Be Held Accountable Stephen Zarlenga 2011

In any case, because we misdefine inflation as price increases rather than as an increase in the money supply, our “inflation targets” have not stopped us from having massive inflation.

Matthew Yglesias » Efficient Markets Hypothesis Rhetoric 2010

For example, misdefine money as wealth say gold or silver and the wealthy will control both their assets AND the money system, and therefore the nation.

Stephen Zarlenga: Part III: How the Economists Facilitated the Crisis and Must Now Be Held Accountable Stephen Zarlenga 2011

So far he has managed to misdefine magic realism "think Tim Powers and Neil Gaiman" he says, complained about a perfectly innocuous squib from Locus, has declared against email submissions but wants to reprint material from the Web, and is sad because his VA-area volunteer slushreaders were boring instead of awesome like the ones he had in New England.

Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009

The gun-grabbers seize on the predicate explanatory clause, misdefine ‘well-regulated’, and try to use it to destroy the nature of the right to keep and bear arms as listed.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Threat of Forced Labor Through Mandatory “National Service”: 2007

We defeat who we are and we misdefine who we are, and do a great disservice to our country when we do this.

CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2006 2006

In the debate over intelligent design one of the more annoying problems is the media's predilection to misdefine ID, and to avoid reporting the positive case scientists make for the theory based on scientific evidence.

Evolution News & Views 2009

It also helps a little bit to misdefine religion as the belief in God.

Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy 2009

It also helps a little bit to misdefine religion as the belief in God.

Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy 2009

He may do many things, but he has no right to redefine or misdefine the Catholic Church's teachings according to his own whims and fancies, preferences, and ignorantly held opinions.

Biblical Evidence for Catholicism 2009