Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not rightly aimed or directed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not rightly aimed.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of misaim.

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Examples

  • Turns out this is nothing but a money making enterprise dealing in seething, misaimed, teenage-like angst.

    Welcome to the Tea Party: Infighting plagues conservative group 2010

  • Critics-mostly conservative-fire some shots that appear to be well placed and some that seem to be completely misaimed.

    The Guns Of February 2008

  • Bohemian ran hither and thither through the court, amongst the clamour of voices, and noise of blows, some of which reached him not because purposely misaimed, others, sincerely designed for his person, were eluded by his activity, and the few that fell upon his back and shoulders he took without either complaint or reply.

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • BUSH MISAIMED, MISFIRED AND MISTAKEN/TAKE HIS TOYS AWAY yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'BUSH MISAIMED, MISFIRED AND MISTAKEN/TAKE HIS TOYS AWAY'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Only apathy stands in the way of stopping this run away neocon train of hubris and delusion which has not only misaimed, misfired and was mistaken in its illegal war and occupation of Iraq but is in danger of doing the same thing with Iran.

    BUSH MISAIMED, MISFIRED AND MISTAKEN / TAKE HIS TOYS AWAY 2007

  • One misaimed shot is all it would take to turn a would-be armed student hero into a murderer in his own right.

    When It Comes to Guns, Virginia Can’t Get Out of the News - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • In the latest misaimed blast from the Whine and Cheese Division of the Discovery Institute, Michael Francisco expresses shock and dismay at the idea that people would actually claim that Intelligent Design and creationism are the same thing:

    Yet more desperation at the DI - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Churchill, whose firing I supported, is right to call this specific question misaimed; in his infamous essay, Churchill called the folks ...

    On The Firing of Ward Churchill 2006

  • In the latest misaimed blast from the Whine and Cheese Division of the Discovery Institute, Michael Francisco expresses shock and dismay at the idea that people would actually claim that Intelligent Design and creationism are the same thing:

    The Panda's Thumb: April 2006 Archives 2006

  • A second rifle went off " the captain's " and Dainyl felt the focused Talent that twisted a horribly misaimed bullet right through the forehead of the rebel.

    Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • Cicero's innocent expression seems to imply that he was merely trying to scale a hill like his uncle but misaimed his pick, but look closely...there's no rock face anywhere near where Cicero plunged his weapon.

    Archive 2004-03-07 2004

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