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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.

misprint

A mistake in printing; a deviation from the copy; as, a book full of misprints. Misprints are sometimes noted and corrected in a list of corrigenda distributed with a book.

Misproportion

To give wrong or unesthetic proportions to; to join without due proportion; as, the legs were misrpoportioned to the body.

Misquote

To quote erroneously or incorrectly.

Misraise

To raise or excite unreasonable.

Misread

To read amiss; to misunderstand in reading.

Misrecollect

To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects.

Misregard

Wrong understanding; misconstruction.

Misregulate

To regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate.

Misremember

To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.

Misrender

To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly.

Misrepeat

To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.

Misreport

An erroneous report; a false or incorrect account given.

Misrepresentation

Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives.

Misrepute

To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.

Misrule

The act, or the result, of misruling.

Miss

The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.

Missa

The service or sacrifice of the Mass.

Missal

Of or pertaining to the Mass, or to a missal or Mass book.

Missend

To send amiss or incorrectly.

Misset

To set or place wrongly.

Misshape

To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform.

Missheathed

Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place.

Missile

A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projected, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.

Missing

Absent from the place where it was expected to be found; lost; lacking; wanting; not present when called or looked for.

Missionary

Of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.

Missioner

A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6.

Missis

A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate.

Missish

Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental.

Mississippian

A geological period extending from from 310 million to 345 million years ago; it was associated with an increase of land areas, the presence of primitive ammonites, and emergence of winged insects; called also Missippian period and Lower Carboniferous period.

Missit

To sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome.

Missive

That which is sent; a writing containing a message.

Missound

To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly.

Misspend

To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to squander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money.

Misstate

To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate.

Misstayed

Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.

Misstep

To take a wrong step; to go astray.

Missy

An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss. Like a miss, or girl.

mist

Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.

Mist

To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.

Mistakable

Liable to be mistaken; capable of being misconceived.

Mistake

An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct.

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