2. Verb. (third-person singular of misfit) ¹
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Definition of Misfits
1. misfit [v] - See also: misfit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misfits
Literary usage of Misfits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Secondary Stresses in Bridge Trusses by Carl Robert Grimm (1908)
"misfits. It is very essential that the lengths of members for a riveted truss are
... In order to determine the effects of these misfits on the stresses, ..."
2. The High School Failures: A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in by Francis Paul O'Brien (1919)
"SOME ARE EVIDENTLY misfits There is a strong presumption that many of the 485
pupils who failed in 50 per cent of their school work and dropped out ..."
3. Unfinished Man: A Scientific Analysis of the Psychopath Or Human Degenerate by Albert Wilson (1910)
"SECTION D.— misfits IN MARRIAGE A balance of sexing properties appears to be
essential to The produce normal individuals. It is when this equilibrium is ..."
4. Careers for Women by Catherine Filene (1920)
"THE WORKER WITH GIRLS WHO ARE misfits MABELLE B. BLAKE General Secretary, Boston
Society for the Care of Girls Description of occupation THE worker comes in ..."
5. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including by Isabella Lucy Bird (1888)
"... Yokohama Railroad—The Effect of misfits—The Plain of Yedo—Personal
Peculiarities—First Impressions o. ..."
6. Cleveland School Survey: Summary Volume by Leonard Porter Ayres, Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee (1917)
"CHILDREN WHO ARE misfits The survey has made a careful study to determine how
many of the Cleveland children are over-age for their grades and how many are ..."
7. Types from City Streets by Hutchins Hapgood (1910)
"IV LIFE'S LITTLE misfits MANY of life's tragedies, both big and little, are due
to the fact that there is not enough taste in the world, ..."
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