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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
misbestow .
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Examples
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You will believe I cannot: for how shall I tell him that all his compliments are misbestowed? that all his advice is thrown away? all his warnings vain? and that even my highest expectation is to be the wife of that free-liver, whom he so pathetically warns me to shun?
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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What can be misbestowed by a man on his person who values it more than his mind?
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Various 1910
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By what I have written (which is a true and exact account, to the best of my knowledge) I hope you will not think your favour to me out of the late worthy Dr. Stratford's effects quite misbestowed, for which I must ever gratefully own myself,
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It was not only that her love had been misbestowed, — not only that she had made so grievous an error in the one great act of her life which she had chosen to perform on her own judgement.
The Prime Minister 1876
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It was not only that her love had been misbestowed, -- not only that she had made so grievous an error in the one great act of her life which she had chosen to perform on her own judgment!
The Prime Minister Anthony Trollope 1848
minerva commented on the word misbestowed
...how shall I tell him that all his compliments are misbestowed...
Clarissa Harlowe to Anna Howe, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
December 10, 2007