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  • verb Present participle of mislay.

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Examples

  • It was this conviction that made the intrigues at OKH, the disregard and "mislaying" of unwelcome instructions, such a personal affair in the first summer's campaign.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • 'mislaying' this one list is supposed to be that he had suppressed in it the name of his former friend's son; and no second formal list for

    Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

  • Tottenham's Ledley King will now have his groin operation next week after mislaying his passport.

    Tottenham's Ledley King misses groin operation after passport fiasco 2011

  • But someone prone to mislaying telephone or iPod might want to shop around.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Jean 2009

  • But someone prone to mislaying telephone or iPod might want to shop around.

    Jean's Knitting Jean 2009

  • I shall hope for it if you have, and I will leave with you on Monday morning my random reconing for the last year of what I have received, your Books will supply the dates which I have lost through mislaying a paper.

    Letter 275 2009

  • She won a Bronze Star for managing $47 million in projects without mislaying a penny.

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

  • She won a Bronze Star for managing $47 million in projects without mislaying a penny.

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

  • She won a Bronze Star for managing $47 million in projects without mislaying a penny.

    The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010

  • Now owned by Robin Bextor, a television director who sometimes shoots the videos for his daughter Sophie Ellis Bextor, there is an appealing and understated stylishness to the place, which makes it just perfect for the mislaying of whole afternoons.

    The 20 best places to eat in Britain this summer 2010

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