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  • verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of missell.

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Examples

  • LONDON—The U.K. High Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by British banks for a review of rules covering payments to customers who were missold payment-protection insurance.

    U.K. Banks Lose Challenge to Insurance Rules Marietta Cauchi 2011

  • Over Sales of Funds Barclays PLC was fined £ 7.7 million $12.23 million and will have to pay as much as £ 60 million to customers who were missold two stock-and-bond funds.

    Financial Briefing Book: Jan. 19 2011

  • £ 68 Million Charge LONDON — U.K. bank Barclays PLC was slapped with a £ 7.7 million $12.23 million fine Tuesday and will have to pay as much as £ 60 million to customers who were missold two stock-and-bond funds.

    Barclays Hit With Margot Patrick 2011

  • Barclays was hit with a £ 7.7 million $12.2 million fine and will have to pay as much as £ 60 million to customers who were missold two stock-and-bond funds.

    Business Watch 2011

  • I get the impression that the Crippled God has been missold to us as the series' closest equivalent to a dark lord, when a better analogue is that he is a castaway who just wants to go home, but left to his own devices could destroy the world.

    Dust of Dreams by Steven Erikson Adam Whitehead 2009

  • Many CEOs have missold insurance business plans to their promoters, promising them indecent returns through an IPO or stake sale when fairy-tale valuations hit the sky.

    Right Man for the Wrong Job? P. Nandagopal 2009

  • PPI or payment protection insurance has been missold to many thousands of UK loan and mortgage customers over the past decade.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • Perhaps no one remembers endowment misselling or pensions misselling when a whole group of so called "independent" financial advisors missold life assurance - pocketed big up front fees and then in many cases collapsed their companies leaving everyone else to pick up the pieces.

    How to Damage Small Businesses in two Easy Lessons 2007

  • So either I've misunderstood the thesis, it's been missold, or it's wrong.

    "Crisis = opportunity + danger." Ann Althouse 2007

  • The Sixth Sense trailer also missold majorly I was working in a cinema so I must have seen it 40 times or so "What if some of them don't want help?"

    M-I 3 Rogers 2005

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