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mispractice

mispractice noun: wrong or bad practice; misconduct.

Noun

mispractice (countable and uncountable, plural mispractices)

  1. Wrong or bad practice; misconduct
    Synonyms:
    malpractice

Verb

mispractice (third-person singular simple present mispractices, present participle mispracticing, simple past and past participle mispracticed)

  1. To practice wrongly

Synonyms of mispractice

Forms of mispractice

Noun
pluralmispractices
Verb
third-person singular presentmispractices
present participlemispracticing
past participlemispracticed
pastmispracticed

Origin of mispractice

From mis- + practice.

Questions about mispractice

What does mispractice mean?
Mispractice means wrong or bad practice; misconduct.
What part of speech is mispractice?
Mispractice can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of mispractice?
The plural of mispractice is mispractices.

Words near mispractice in the dictionary

  1. misposts
  2. mispour
  3. mispoured
  4. mispouring
  5. mispours
  6. mispractice
  7. mispractices
  8. mispraise
  9. mispraised
  10. mispraises
  11. mispraising

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mispractice (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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