misdecorate

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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)

  1. 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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