misshading

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of misshade

plural misshadings

1. countableuncountableAn instance of misshading

   Eliminates traditional causes of misshading.

   1976, Quintessence International, Dental Digest - Volume 7, Issues 10-12

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   Nor can we do better than to borrow the portrait of this sui-generis eccentricity which we find hanging up on the walls of the Knickerbocker -– drawn by one of its most skilful artists, with only one or two misshadings of the pencil

   1865, Richard Miller Devens, Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes, page 608

   The credited testimony of Borden shows that Adams on October 12 prewarned him about the discharge and told him that the ground for the discharge would be the misshading of materials ( i.e. selecting materials for manufacture into a batch of shirts which were not of matching shades).

   1971, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 889