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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mispaint .
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Examples
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The room resembled an installation in a vacuous art gallery, the re? ection of the ceiling bulb on the wood? oor intended to signify the false surface of existence, the felled suitcases embodying the transitory nature of life — or more speci? cally, the life of the subject, shrimped up in the corner against a bare, mispainted wall.
'Love And Obstacles' 2009
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I have this clunky teapot I picked up for 2.50 Euros because it was mispainted.
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2005
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Instead of the braggart and brawler that his enemies mispainted him, I saw in Roosevelt, rather, a strong man who had taken early to heart Hamlet's maxim and had steadfastly practiced it:
Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919
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As I stared into the plaster icon's off centre pupils and mispainted eyebrows, I couldn't help but think -
CBC Radio 3 2009
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