mismold

present singular third person mismolds · participle present mismolding · participle past mismolded · past mismolded · alternative mismould

1. To mold improperly, producing an unintended result.

   The same can be said of the altar 151, which was fired even though seriously mismolded.

   2006, Gloria S. Merker, The Greek Tile Works at Corinth, page 21

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   Overindulgence in certain "malignant” or disabling wishes, and for them parents and teachers should early be on guard, is likely to deform or mismold the personality.

   1948, William Samuel Sadler, Adolescence Problems, page 82

   It is possible then that Commoner believes that the essential character of modern science has been mismolded by the "vested interests" of its practitioners, and their relations to major segments of society—a curious political materialism for one who is so skeptical of simplistic scientific materialism.

   1989, Environmental Ethics, page 34

   All those days of grinding it out on the road, all those highway bumps and the hours in that vibrating cab had mismolded his body, compacting his organs down along his waist and padding that cargo with sedentary fat, so that he'd taken on the appearnace of a pear with legs.

   2004, Edward Jae-Suk Lee, The Good Man, page 84

plural mismolds · alternative mismould

1. The act of mismolding.

   Hydrostructionists, for this reason, have shifted to the use of imperfect concrete pipe, which is culled from construction damaged items or factory mismolds, with a great deal of success.

   1976, Water Spectrum - Volumes 8-11, page 32