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mislying

mislying is the present participle and gerund of mislie.

Meaning of mislie

Verb

mislie (third-person singular simple present mislies, present participle mislying, simple past mislay, past participle mislain)

  1. (intransitive) To lie awkwardly, uncomfortably, or amiss.

Questions about mislying

What is mislying the present participle and gerund of?
Mislying is the present participle and gerund of mislie.

Words near mislying in the dictionary

  1. misluck
  2. mislucked
  3. mislucking
  4. mislucks
  5. misly
  6. mislying
  7. mismachine
  8. mismachined
  9. mismachines
  10. mismachining
  11. mismade

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mislying (page history and authors); mislie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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