Bad, Abnormal, and Just Plain Wrong: mis (bad, badly), List 2

Learn these words containing mis meaning "badly, incorrectly, or hatefully."
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  1. misjudge
    form an incorrect opinion
  2. miscalculate
    compute incorrectly
  3. misapprehension
    an understanding of something that is not correct
  4. misconstrue
    interpret in the wrong way
  5. misbehave
    act badly
  6. misspell
    write the letters of incorrectly
  7. misinterpretation
    the act of incorrectly understanding something
  8. misbegotten
    poorly thought out
  9. misfeasance
    doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner
  10. misattribute
    wrongly credit something (work, idea, quotation) to someone
Created on Mon Mar 30 11:13:15 EDT 2026

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