missewn

comparative more missewn · superlative most missewn

1. Containing sewing errors.

   Justin's suggestion of a missewn selvage wouldn't work with the nap, but she did have a bolt end she'd put aside, as it had a row of flaws.

   2010, Rosemary Laurey, Love Me Forever

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   Thus, whether a dress was pretty and well made or ugly and missewn was irrelevant, since profit was not at issue: the dress would be “given away” at a subsidized price, not sold.

   2005, Vladimir Tismaneanu, The Revolutions of 1989, page 70

   A universe can be fully equivalent to a lesser-dimensional one on its boundary. Like missewn threads between different parts of a shirt, nonlocal.

   2008, George Musser, The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory

   The women conspire to cover up the murder by hiding evidence that only another woman could decipher within the women's world of the kitchen, such as a missewn quilt and an unkempt cupboard that attest to Minnie's distraught state of mind.

   2009, Pamela Cobrin, From Winning the Vote to Directing on Broadway, page 112

1. participlepastpast participle of missew