misimitate

present singular third person misimitates · participle present misimitating · participle past misimitated · past misimitated

1. To imitate badly; to produce a defective imitation of

   They have all misheard and misimitated song lyrics without great trauma.

   2003, Brock Dethier, From Dylan to Donne: Bridging English and Music, page 49

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   Whenever anyone for some reason is motivated to improve his speech, he imitates ( or misimitates ) what he thinks to be the community norm .

   1969, Working Papers in Linguistics - Volume 1, Parts 4-6, page 87

   The SK wants his Yatì (vs. the Kavi's weak one!); but the Kavi preserves that and the final rhythm, managing the proper names with a variation of 2b (q.v.), which latter the SK partly misimitates.

   1971, K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, Journal - Issue 43, page 19

   Just as historic styles are distorted, cheapened and misimitated for commercial production, modern designs can be “knocked-off" through imitation that almost always misses the point of the original, copies its least significant aspects, and introduces modifications that distort its real values.

   1990, John F. Pile, Furniture: Modern and Postmodern, Design and Technology, page 3