misask

present singular third person misasks · participle present misasking · participle past misasked · past misasked · alternative mis-ask

1. raretransitiveto ask amiss; ask badly, wrongfully, or incorrectly

   Mr. Morris. Did that include the five seamen now in Moscow? I may have misasked the question then.

   1956, Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States

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   As Godot marks its sixtieth year in the repertory of world drama and as Beckett criticism itself likewise marks some sixty plus years of existence, we might ask ourselves, readers and spectators of Beckett's oeuvre, whether or not we have been mis-asking questions about Beckett's art.

   2014, S. E. Gontarski, Creative Involution