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Definition of Misterms
1. misterm [v] - See also: misterm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misterms
Literary usage of Misterms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Innocents Abroad: Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress : Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1899)
"... which that old doctor (whom we call the Oracle,) with customary felicity in
the matter of getting everything wrong, misterms "nasty." But we must go, ..."
2. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"... which that old doctor (whom we call the Oracle^ with customary felicity in
the matter of getting everything wrong, misterms "nasty." But we must go, ..."
3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"... customary felicity in the matter of getting everything wrong, misterms "nasty."
But we must go, nevertheless. Our last sight was the cemetery (a burial ..."
4. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1914)
"... know I would return sharp answer to your slanders; But it suffices, I am none
of aught Your rage misterms me. 185 Louis. None of 'em? no rascal? John. ..."
5. Richard Wagner to Mathilde Wesendonck by Richard Wagner, Mathilde Wesendonck, William Ashton Ellis (1905)
"... another," and his connection thereof with what he grossly misterms " a public
scandal," as on a par with his usual unreliability. ..."
6. The Natural History of Insects by James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood (1835)
"... and of the butterfly in this fatty pulp; but at the same time it must be
admitted that the gradual development, or, as Herold misterms it, formation, ..."
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