mixed message
noun
A message which conveys contradictory or inconsistent information, often unintentionally; (in plural) messages which (apparently) contradict each other.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Funny Folks.
- Palgrave, Francis Turner
- pali
- palichnology
- paliform
- paligorskite
- palilalia
- palillogy
- palilogia
- palilogy
- palimbacchius
- palimony
- palimpsest
- palimpsestic
- palinal
- palindrome
- palindromic
- palindromical
- palindromically
- palindromist
- paling
- palingenesia
- palingenesis
- palingenesist
- palingenetic
- palingenetically