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English
Etymology
From mis- + decorate.
Verb
misdecorate (third-person singular simple present misdecorates, present participle misdecorating, simple past and past participle misdecorated)
- To decorate incorrectly.
1884 March, “A Shepherd at Court”, in The Overland Monthly, volume 3, number 3, page 271:“By George that's not a bad idea of yours, Gurney,” said Mr. Rivers, misdecorating the patentee of the invention with a charming naiveté.
1917, Musical America - Volume 26, page 29:Well, not as a rule the shawl-bedecked immigrant you so fondly hoped you were going to help, not the 'harmless and pleasure-loving “flapper,” whom the ladies and society wish “someone could reach,” nor the knot of carefree young men who misdecorate the street corners —oh, no!
2019, Andrew McConnell Stott, What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare:Stratfordians were unsure what a “jubilee” was meant to be, and worried whether it might “notify and misdecorate a new Species of Bacchanalian Revelling at Stratford Upon Avon."
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