misreply

Etymology

From mis- + reply.

misreply means to reply inappropriately. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 96 out of 100.

verb

To reply inappropriately.“While almost any conversational turn by addressee can serve as the reference turn for a connective-initial turn by a self-selecting participant, a preceding turn by Alter was used in a more restricted set of circumstances, such as: […] If Alter has misreplied, in Ego's estimation, either through misunderstanding or contradiction, to Ego's preceding turn, or if he has emphasized the wrong aspect or”