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Misgive

To give out doubt and apprehension; to be fearful or irresolute.

misgiving

Evil premonition; doubt; distrust; a feeling of apprehension; -- used commonly in the plural.

Misgovern

To govern badly; as, to misgovern a country.

Misgrowth

Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.

Mishandle

To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.

Mishap

To happen unluckily; -- used impersonally.

Mishmash

A hodgepodge or hotchpotch; a confused jumble.

Mishna

A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture, forming the text of the Talmud.

Mishnic

Of or pertaining to the Mishna.

Misimprove

To use for a bad purpose; to abuse; to misuse; as, to misimprove time, talents, advantages, etc.

Misincline

To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.

Misinform

To give untrue information; (with against) to calumniate.

Misinformer

One who gives untrue or incorrect information.

Misinterpret

To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.

Misjoin

To join unfitly or improperly.

Misjoinder

An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil.

Misjudge

To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.

Miskindle

To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.

Misknow

To have a mistaken notion of or about.

Mislactation

Defective flow or vitiated condition of the milk.

Misle

A fine rain; a thick mist; a mizzle; a drizzle.

Mislead

To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.

Mislight

To deceive or lead astray with a false light.

Mislike

Dislike; disapprobation; aversion.

Misly

Raining in very small drops; drizzling.

Mismake

To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.

Mismanage

To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.

Mismanagement

Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.

mismatched

Matched unsuitably; grouped into pairs or sets with incompatible characteristics.

Mismate

To mate wrongly or unsuitably; to mismatch; as, to mismate gloves or shoes; a mismated couple.

Mismeter

To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse.

Misname

To call by the wrong name; to give a wrong or inappropriate name to.

Misnurture

To nurture or train wrongly; as, to misnurture children.

Misobserve

To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing.

Misobserver

One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.

Misogynous

Hating women; having deep-seated distrust of women; -- used of men.

Misogyny

Hatred of women. Contrast misandry.

Misology

Hatred of argument or discussion; hatred of enlightenment.

Mispickel

Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.

Misplace

To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.

Misplacement

The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.

Mispoint

To point improperly; to punctuate wrongly.

Misprint

To print wrongly; to make a mistake in printing.

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