Meanings
nounmismotion (uncountable)
- uncountableBad or wrong motion.
He couldn't work at tennis because he was so naturally good at tennis. And when all of those inborn reflexes failed him — as if he were shocked at the mismotion of his own arm, at the slowness of his own leg — then we understood John McEnroe.
2000, Nicholas Delbanco, The Writing Life: The Hopwood Lectures, Fifth Series, page 69
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