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  • verb Present participle of misword.

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Examples

  • By miswording the question, I set up a "versus" situation and tension between people's ideal worlds whereas the question should've focused on intermediate steps, projects, and activities people would like to take towards making that other world possible.

    LA IMC Los Angeles Anarchists 2010

  • By miswording the question, I set up a "versus" situation and tension between people's ideal worlds whereas the question should've focused on intermediate steps, projects, and activities people would like to take towards making that other world possible.

    Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends 2010

  • I thought Digg’s comment was obvious, despite the miswording: Wealth of natural resources is neither created nor destroyed, because they are physical material, controlled by the laws of physics.

    How Capitalism Will Keep a Nation Hungry « Lean Left 2007

  • Nevertheless, solemn and reverent as was this warning, it did not prevent errors from slipping into the old illuminated manuscripts, and many a one is marred by misspelling or miswording. "

    Paul and the Printing Press Sara Ware Bassett 1920

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