misendow

present singular third person misendows · participle present misendowing · participle past misendowed · past misendowed

1. usuallyTo provide or endow with something that is not a benefit.

   This only served to make racial encounters more cruel and generously misendowed with a legacy of hatred and denigration endemic to the culture.

   2013, William B. McClain, “Foreward”, in J. Phillips Noble, editor, Beyond the Burning Bus, page 10

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   Given the interactive character of genes and environment, one now must ask, "Are there certain specific genetic mechanisms or processes, pathological or otherwise, that determine that certain individuals so endowed (or misendowed) will be unable to live up to social and cultural expectations of performance and capability?

   1970, Donald J. Mulvihill, Melvin Marvin Tumin, Lynn A. Curtis, Crimes of Violence, page 419

   Nostromo's fate demonstrates that even possession of what has been figuratively misendowed with essential reality does not mitigate that desire responsible for the genesis of the fetishistic process itself.

   1982, David Simpson, Fetishism and Imagination: Dickens, Melville, Conrad, page 96

   Joan, who was wearing nothing but rag-bag clothes, had a lumpy, broken nose above a brandy-glass chin, an extremely high forehead and, in spite of the fact that she was only in her early thirties or so, a radical case of fallen eyelids, which, ptychotically ugly, to use one of your big words, E², not only ruined anything like prettiness in her but made her seem older and sadly misendowed her with a perpetual scowl, the angry look of a flammulated owl.

   2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic: Or, The Sexual Intellectual, page 296