miswash

present singular third person miswashes · participle present miswashing · participle past miswashed · past miswashed

1. To wash badly.

   The tinkling music of dishes miswashed

   2017, Anthony C Murphy, “Music and Laughter”, in Scoppetry

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   Two volumes of Elia have been spoilt by the man to whom they were entrusted, by miswashing sheets sent to him to clean.

   1969, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, The Journals of Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, 1879-1922, page 42

   Angie wheeled back through the lobby to the large front windows, grimy with years of miswashing and, the last few years, no washing at all.

   2017, Terence Kuch, Exit 4, page 7