Definition of misinformation
: incorrect or misleading information
- Indubitably, a great deal of paranoid and otherwise irresponsible misinformation about the Kennedy assassination has traveled far and sold well …
- —Ronnie Dugger
- A muddle of misinformation keeps clouding the debate over hormone-replacement therapy for women.
- —Melinda Beck
- Each of these pieces of information (and misinformation) about me is sold for about two-fifths of a cent to advertisers, which then deliver me an Internet ad, send me a catalog or mail me a credit-card offer.
- —Joel Stein
