misknotted

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of misknot

comparative more misknotted · superlative most misknotted

1. Incorrectly knotted.

   As usual, Mick noted irritably, he was wearing a shirt with cross-hatching and a shitebrown tie misknotted entirely and only coming down to the middle of his chest.

   2007, Roger Boylan, The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad: A Mostly Irish Farce, page 9

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   Women with corsages were few, and the only guy to show up in a tux was a returning alumnus with a misknotted bowtie that dangled from his neck like a damp golf glove.

   1991 December, Larry Sheehan, “Dartmouth's Carnival”, in Snow Country, volume 4, number 8, page 138

   Here I was suddenly a man of means and this little snot-nosed kid in a short-sleeved white shirt with ketchup on the pocket and misknotted tie was ordering me about.

   2000, Dann Landers, Drifter, page 14