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Misadjust

To adjust wrongly of unsuitably; to throw out of adjustment.

Misadventure

Mischance; misfortune; ill luck; unlucky accident; ill adventure.

misaffection

An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected.

misaligned

Aligned improperly; not correctly aligned.

misalignment

The act of aligning improperly or state of being improperly aligned.

Misalliance

A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance.

Misalter

To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse.

misandrist

one who hates men. Contrast misogynist and cf. misandry.

misandry

Hatred of men. Contrast misogyny and cf. misandrist.

Misanthropy

Hatred of, or dislike to, mankind; -- opposed to philanthropy.

Misapply

To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.

Misapprehension

A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.

Misarrange

To place in a wrong order, or improper manner.

Misassay

To assay, or attempt, improperly or unsuccessfully.

Misbear

To carry improperly; to carry (one's self) wrongly; to misbehave.

Misbecome

Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to.

Misbehave

To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.

Misbehavior

Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct.

Misbelieve

To believe erroneously, or in a false religion.

Misbeliever

One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion.

Miscall

To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.

Miscarriage

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.

Miscast

An erroneous cast or reckoning.

miscegenate

to marry or cohabit with a person of another race.

Miscegenation

A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.

Miscellanarian

Of or pertaining to miscellanies. A writer of miscellanies.

Miscellane

A mixture of two or more sorts of grain; -- now called maslin and meslin.

Miscellanea

A collection of miscellaneous matters; matters of various kinds.

Miscellaneous

Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection.

Mischaracterize

To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to.

Mischarge

To charge erroneously, as in an account. A mistake in charging.

Mischief-maker

One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.

Mischief-making

Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. The act or practice of making mischief, inciting quarrels, etc.

Mischievous

Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child.

Miscible

Capable of being mixed; mixable.

Misconceive

To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misunderstand; to misjudge; to misapprehend.

Misconception

Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.

Misconstruct

To construct wrongly; to construe or interpret erroneously.

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