Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make or shape badly.
- adjective Formed unnaturally; misshapen or deformed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed; monstrous; spurious.
- To create faultily; create erroneously; mar or render monstrous in the making.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Obs. or Poet. Miscreated; illegitimate; forged.
- transitive verb To create badly or amiss.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
create wrongly or poorly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb shape or form or make badly
Etymologies
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Examples
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Who would make sure his blood got destroyed so no one was ever tempted to miscreate another like him?
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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Who would make sure his blood got destroyed so no one was ever tempted to miscreate another like him?
Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011
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The lesson is forcibly taught by these observations, that our life might be much easier and simpler than we make it; that the world might be a happier place than it is; that there is no need of struggles, convulsions, and despairs, of the wringing of the hands and the gnashing of the teeth; that we miscreate our own evils.
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To him however that feels the same disgust and loathing, the same unutterable shuddering, as I feel, start up within him and shoot through his whole frame at the sight of them, these miscreate deformities, such as toads, beetles, or that most nauseous of all Nature's abortions, the bat, are not indifferent or insignificant: their very existence is a state of direct enmity and warfare against his.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813
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a happier place than it is; that there is no need of struggles, convulsions, and despairs, of the wringing of the hands and the gnashing of the teeth; that we miscreate our own evils.
Essays — First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842
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