mislook

present singular third person mislooks · participle present mislooking · participle past mislooked · past mislooked

1. intransitiveTo sin by looking.
2. transitiveTo look unfavorably on.
3. transitiveTo miss in searching; mislay or lose temporarily; neglectively overlook.

   “We shared that with the FBI,” said Robert Delfin, Chief of Intelligence command for the Philippine National Police. “They may have mislooked and didn't appreciate the info coming from the Philippine police.

   2005, James Bamford, A Pretext For War

4. transitiveTo look incorrectly or amiss.

   To look for "organic form" or for active conflict ultimately resolved, "all passion spent," is to mislook.

   1977, Israeli Institute for Poetics and Semiotics, Makhon ha-Yiśreʼeli le-poʼeṭiḳah ṿe-semyoṭiḳah ʻal-shem Porṭer, PTL.

1. rareuncountableSinful looking.

   The story of Perseus and Medusa contains a suggestion of how to overcome the evils of "Mislook" in that Perseus is victorious through his use of the shield of Pallas and the sword of Mercury.

   1975, Patrick J. Gallacher, Love, the word, and Mercury: A Reading of John Gower's Confessio Amantis'