miswalk

present singular third person miswalks · participle present miswalking · participle past miswalked · past miswalked

1. ambitransitivefigurativelysometimesTo walk along the wrong path.

   Sue withdrew to the kitchen, very much aware that she had committed a folly as bad or worse than miswalking a minuet.

   1941, Cyril Harris, Richard Pryne: A Novel of the American Revolution, page 87

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   For there is another spirit near man, whose nature, work, and delight is to cause man to misunderstand, and miswalk by the very scriptures; and will bring things as warmly and (as it were) clearly to him, as he can from scriptures, purposely to deceive and mislead him.

   1863, Isaac Penington, The Works of Isaac Penington, page 31

   This visit was probably about the concern of Fenwick's business and land titles, rather than any miswalking or violation of Discipline.

   1991, Salem Quarter: The Quakers of Salem Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in Southern New Jersey from 1675-1990, page 214

   The stroller who barely knows where he is going still keeps to the right path and stops at his destination without having miswalked. At least he gets there as a rule.

   2006, Adam Phillips, Sigmund Freud, The Penguin Freud Reader