miswash

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English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ wash.

Verb

miswash (third-person singular simple present miswashes, present participle miswashing, simple past and past participle miswashed)

  1. To wash badly.
    • 1969, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, The Journals of Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, 1879-1922, page 42:
      Two volumes of Elia have been spoilt by the man to whom they were entrusted, by miswashing sheets sent to him to clean.
    • 2017, Terence Kuch, Exit 4, page 7:
      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, Anthony C Murphy, “Music and Laughter”, in Scoppetry:
      The tinkling music of dishes miswashed