Lexicographical Neighbors of Misgrown
Literary usage of Misgrown
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The East and the West (1904)
"... as is so often stated, an overgrown child, but that rather he is a misgrown
child—" misgrown with a vengeance." He is coarse, vicious, cunning, clever, ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"... with no bodies and one hnge fruit atop, like a misgrown child with water on
the brain—which are "excellent ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"Rudolf was already seated at the coffee table, while the little misgrown creature
wa» occupied in placing upon it a variety of articles from a basket which ..."
4. The Old Red Sandstone: To which is Appended a Series of Geological Papers by Hugh Miller (1858)
"The horses were shaggy, diminutive things, speckled dun and gray ; the riders,
stunted, misgrown, ugly creatures, attired in antique jerkins of plaid, ..."
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