Word: misinformer
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...her/his/its preoccupation-or experimentation-with artificial sex. But unlike Myra, which is redeemed somewhat by Vidal's satirical skill, these books have the lifeless neutrality of assignments thought up by publishers' accountants and carried out by literary conscripts. They not only fail to exalt, amuse, enrage, inform, misinform or anesthetize; they also fall short of truly satisfying grubbiness...
...Ozark pixy in Harry S. Truman got the better of him when he surprised Stanley Woodward, his old chief of protocol at the State Department, by meeting him aboard the Ille de France on Woodward's return from Europe and playfully having an official misinform him that his passport had been canceled. After the laughter (mostly Harry's) had subsided, Truman continued his week's visit in Manhattan at a nostalgic, noon-to-twilight reunion luncheon (shrimps, lobster, steak) of members and staff of the Senate's World War II committee to investigate the national defense...
Advisers sometimes misinform students, Taylor continued, about basic requirements in fields other than their own. A freshman appeared before the meeting to describe how he had lost time through faulty advice...
...veteran and expert traveler, and I am getting fed to the teeth. You learn not to deal with representatives of airlines in small towns. They were chosen for their looks and have taken courses in charm, but they misinform you about routes and connections, which may throw your whole trip off or lengthen it 50 per cent, and the reservations they make may not stick...
...When you state that one of Ecuador's most noteworthy products is "shrunken heads" [June 25], you not only misinform your readers, but you border on the sensational type of journalism which is not in keeping with the fine traditions of TIME...