mispaste

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verb

To paste incorrectly.

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Meanings

verbmispaste (third-person singular simple present mispastes, present participle mispasting, simple past and past participle mispasted)

present singular third person mispastes · participle present mispasting · participle past mispasted · past mispasted

  1. To paste incorrectly.

    An historian should not mispaste his memories.

    1987, River Styx - Issues 21-24, page 10
    2 more examples

    One of the girls said later, "I had much trouble making this picture, mispasting the scraps, putting on too much paste, etc.

    1951, School Arts - Volume 51, page 18

    The result should be 170, assuming you didn't add spaces anywhere or mistype or mispaste the text.

    2021, Nick Montfort, Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, page 129

Origin

From mis- + paste.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

timepass
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APA

mispaste. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mispaste

MLA

“mispaste.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mispaste. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “mispaste,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mispaste.

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