Definitions
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- adjective
Aimed amiss . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
misintend .
Etymologies
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mis- + intended
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From misintend + -ed.
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Examples
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One of those archers closely I did spy, ayming his arrow at my very hart: when suddenly with twincle of her eye, the Damzell broke his misintended dart.
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Anyone who’s been reading this blog for awhile knows that we’re all big fans of the “local commercial” genre of Internet videos, and this one is a real tour-de-force of misintended hilarity.
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