Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To happen ill.
- To fare ill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To happen ill or unluckily.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To encounter
grief ormisfortune . - verb To
happen throughmisfortune . - verb intransitive To happen ill;
fare ill.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Anyway, I'd hardly call SOE buying out a painfully mishappen game title hopefully to turn it around a consolidation of MMOs in any sense of the word.
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Affraid, least to themselues the like mishappen might.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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I wanted that mishappen wetsuit photo for my wall.
Socialite Life 2008
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My eyes!" or "Oh my - those cakes are so wrecktastic that the mishappen nipples look like eyes!" but either way I think he was right.
This One's for the Girls Jen 2009
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8 The heavy hap which on them is alight, hap > fortune is alight > [has fallen] 9 Afraid lest to themselves the like mishappen might. mishappen > happen amiss
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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