misadvised

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ advised.

Verb

misadvised

  1. simple past and past participle of misadvise

Adjective

misadvised (comparative more misadvised, superlative most misadvised)

  1. (obsolete) Showing poor judgement, ill-advised, injudicious.
    • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 20–23:
      Therefore to make complaynt
      Of such mysadvysed
      Parsons and dysgysed,
      Thys boke we have devysed, []

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