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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of miscolour.
  • adjective Incorrectly coloured.

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Examples

  • And thus it is that this stupid biographer, and the more flippant and malicious Mrs. Piozzi have miscoloured and misrepresented almost every anecdote that they have pretented to tell of Dr.Johnson. '

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • There was a grand half-truth, distorted, miscoloured in the words, that silenced me for the time.

    Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

  • Tender forgiveness, the Saviour's own likeness; glimpses, brilliant and true at the core, however distorted and miscoloured, of that spiritual world where the wicked cease from troubling, where the meek alone shall inherit the earth, where, as

    Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847

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