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misflung

misflung adjective: having been flung in error or ineptly.

Adjective

misflung (not comparable)

  1. Having been flung in error or ineptly.
    • Slings and arrows, Bingley, slings and arrows quite misflung.2006, Pamela Aidan, An Assembly Such as This, page 159
    • No assessment, evaluation, or reified label on their misflung ball.2008 December, Bryan Adamson, Lisa Brodoff, Marilyn Berger, Anne Enquist, Paula Lustbader, John B. Mitchell, “Can the Professor Come out and Play-Scholarship, Teaching, and Theories of Play”, in...

Origin of misflung

From mis- + flung.

Questions about misflung

What does misflung mean?
Misflung means having been flung in error or ineptly.
What part of speech is misflung?
Misflung is an adjective.

Words near misflung in the dictionary

  1. misflavours
  2. misflip
  3. misflipped
  4. misflipping
  5. misflips
  6. misflung
  7. misfocus
  8. misfocused
  9. misfocuses
  10. misfocusing
  11. misfocussed

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