Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Misdirected; irregular; disorderly.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of misorder.

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Examples

  • Even if it means a longer wait, it's better to have problems like crooked door frames, misordered hardware and misaligned molding fixed before you move into your new home.

    Recourse When Home Builder Is Delayed? 2010

  • A spring of water can be found flowing under an old foundation; one misordered door or window can add weeks to a project.

    Auction Reveals Strength 2008

  • If compounds are misordered because of mistakes in identifiers serious accidents could occur.

    The World's Leading Anti-Scientific Society glyn moody 2008

  • I'm sure I'll get a lot of detractors here.....and I will admit that maybe I misordered.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Tokyoastrogirl 2007

  • I'm sure I'll get a lot of detractors here.....and I will admit that maybe I misordered.

    Tuna Toast Tokyoastrogirl 2007

  • It might be wise to include an 8-column sequence number, however, so that a misordered deck can be repaired by a card sorter; with 72 data columns per card, the total is precisely 40,960 cards (40K cards), requiring a 228 card/second throughput.

    Boing Boing: July 31, 2005 - August 6, 2005 Archives 2005

  • Taking them to a restaurant had been a nightmare of complaints—spotted stemware, poor service, food that was undercooked, overcooked, or misordered.

    The Vineyard Barbara Delinsky 2000

  • Taking them to a restaurant had been a nightmare of complaints—spotted stemware, poor service, food that was undercooked, overcooked, or misordered.

    The Vineyard Barbara Delinsky 2000

  • My mother should have remembered: years before her time at the Thompson Female Seminary, the toilets and sinks for the top floor had been misordered.

    The Hotel New Hampshire Irving, John, 1942- 1981

  • In aige, sone testie, very waspishe, and alwaies ouer miserable: and yet fewe of them cum to any great aige, by reason of their misordered life when they were yong: but

    The Scholemaster 1870

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