Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.
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To account or reckon wrongly.
To adjust wrongly of unsuitably; to throw out of adjustment.
Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
Mischance; misfortune; ill luck; unlucky accident; ill adventure.
Unfortunate.
Unfortunate.
Inadvertence.
Bad advice.
To give bad counsel to.
Ill advised.
To dislike.
Ill disposed.
An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected.
To affirm incorrectly.
Not rightly aimed.
Aligned improperly; not correctly aligned.
The act of aligning improperly or state of being improperly aligned.
A erroneous statement or allegation.
To state erroneously.
A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance.
Wrongly allied or associated.
A wrong allotment.
To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse.
one who hates men. Contrast misogynist and cf. misandry.
Hatred of men. Contrast misogyny and cf. misandrist.
A hater of mankind; a misanthropist.
Hating or disliking mankind.
A misanthrope.
A misanthrope.
Hatred of, or dislike to, mankind; -- opposed to philanthropy.
A wrong application.
To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.
Improperly appreciated.
To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand.
A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.
By, or with, misapprehension.
To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.
taken for one's own use in violation of a trust.
Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.
To ascribe wrongly.
To place in a wrong order, or improper manner.
Wrong arrangement.
To assay, or attempt, improperly or unsuccessfully.
To assign wrongly.
To misunderstand; to disregard.
Misadventure.
To misadvise.
To carry improperly; to carry (one's self) wrongly; to misbehave.
Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to.
Unbecoming.
To wrong; to do injury to.
Not befitting.
Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad or disreputable origin; pernicious.
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
Guilty of ill behavior; illbred; rude.
Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct.
Erroneous or false belief.
To believe erroneously, or in a false religion.
One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion.
To suit ill.
To bestow improperly.
The act of misbestowing.
Misbelief; unbelief; suspicion.
imp. of Misbede.
p. p. of Misbede.
Born to misfortune.
To calculate erroneously.
a mistake in calculating.
To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.
Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a proper or desired result or reach a destination; as, a serious miscarriage of justice.
Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail.
An erroneous cast or reckoning.
to marry or cohabit with a person of another race.
A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.
Of or pertaining to miscellanies. A writer of miscellanies.
A mixture of two or more sorts of grain; -- now called maslin and meslin.
A collection of miscellaneous matters; matters of various kinds.
Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection.
A writer of miscellanies; miscellanarian.
Miscellaneous; heterogeneous.
To misjudge. Erroneous judgment.
To happen by mischance.
Unlucky.
To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to.
To charge erroneously, as in an account. A mistake in charging.
To do harm to.
One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.
Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. The act or practice of making mischief, inciting quarrels, etc.
Mischievous.
Mischievous.
Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child.
See Mishna.
See Mishnic.
To make a wrong choice.
To christen wrongly.
Capability of being mixed.
Capable of being mixed; mixable.
Erroneous citation.
To cite erroneously.
A mistaken claim.
Not cognizant; ignorant; not knowing.
To fail to apprehend; to misunderstand.
Wrong collocation.
To give a wrong color to.
Discomfort.
To get a wrong idea of or about; to misunderstand.
Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
To compute erroneously.
Misconception.
To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misunderstand; to misjudge; to misapprehend.
One who misconceives.
Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.
An erroneous inference or conclusion.
To behave amiss.
Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting.
To conjecture wrongly.
To consecrate amiss.
Wrong consecration.
A wrong consequence; a false deduction.
Such as can be misconstrued, as language or conduct.
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