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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of misrelate.

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  • adjective mistakenly related

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Examples

  • The love that had changed him and the life that had failed him seemed utterly misrelated.

    The U. P. Trail Zane Grey 1905

  • I think the results of this study are being misrelated, and the media is taking the results out of context.

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2009

  • The missing apostrophe from area's you might put down to a typing error; the missing hyphens from well-maintained, 5th-floor, and ready-to-move-into you might ascribe to the pandemic mishandling of those simple punctuation marks; the misrelated clause at the beginning and the dubiously related clause at the end are not so easily shrugged off: they are the faults of pretension rather than ignorance, and the illiteracy of pretentiousness is the vulgarest and most reprehensible.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2 1986

  • It is not only the inexperienced who can be caught with a misrelated participle, but the result is seldom as dramatic as the sentence in a schoolboy's story: The hurricane swept through the town in which I had lived for twenty-five years causing chaos and smashing buildings and factories.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2 1986

  • Missing hyphen, misrelated participle, and bathos apart, this sentence founders on the embarrassing misconception of the tone of trendy.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 2 1986

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