misstapled

Verb

misstaple (third-person singular simple present misstaples, present participle misstapling, simple past and past participle misstapled)

1. To staple improperly.
   • Additional reason for discarding the testimony to the effect that there were as many as 1,350 booklets improperly stapled, is the fact that, after first evading an answer to a question concerning an alleged statement two days after the discharge that only two hundred booklets had been misstapled...1965, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 223