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Meanings of Miserly:

adjective

Of or characteristic of a miser.

Usage examples:

His miserly great-uncle proved to be worth nearly £1 million

Meanings of Misers:

noun

A person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible.

Usage examples:

A typical miser, he hid his money in the house in various places

Meanings of Misery:

noun

A state or feeling of great physical or mental distress or discomfort.

Usage examples:

A man who had brought her nothing but misery

Meanings of Misesteem:

noun

Lack of esteem or respect; disrespect, disfavour.

verb

To lack respect for; to hold in too low esteem; to have a wrong estimation of.

Meanings of Misesteemed:

noun

Lack of esteem or respect; disrespect, disfavour.

verb

To lack respect for; to hold in too low esteem; to have a wrong estimation of.

Meanings of Misesteeming:

noun

Lack of esteem or respect; disrespect, disfavour.

verb

To lack respect for; to hold in too low esteem; to have a wrong estimation of.

Meanings of Misestimate:

verb

Make an incorrect estimate of.

Usage examples:

It became clear that we'd misestimated the difficulty of the project

Meanings of Misestimated:

verb

Make an incorrect estimate of.

Usage examples:

It became clear that we'd misestimated the difficulty of the project

Meanings of Misestimating:

verb

Make an incorrect estimate of.

Usage examples:

It became clear that we'd misestimated the difficulty of the project

Meanings of Misestimation:

noun

An incorrect guess or calculation of what the size, value, amount, cost, etc. of something might be

Usage examples:

Another variable contributing to a flawed business plan would be the firm's misestimation of potent…

Meanings of Misexecution:

noun

Wrong, improper, or defective execution of something; an instance of this.

Meanings of Misexpenditure:

noun

Wrong or improper expenditure; an instance of this.

Meanings of Misexplain:

verb

To explain badly or incorrectly.

Meanings of Misexplained:

verb

To explain badly or incorrectly.

Meanings of Misexpound:

verb

To expound wrongly or incorrectly.

Meanings of Misexpress:

verb

To express (oneself, an emotion) wrongly, badly, or inappropriately.

Meanings of Misexpression:

noun

The process or result of altering a gene so as to change its associated character in a phenotype; the incorrect expression of a gene in a phenotype.

Meanings of Misfare:

verb

To fare badly, come to grief, be unfortunate; (shetland, of a boat) to founder.

Meanings of Misfeasance:

noun

A transgression, especially the wrongful exercise of lawful authority.

Usage examples:

In contrast with the tort of misfeasance in public office, bad faith is not an ingredient of the to…

Meanings of Misfeasances:

noun

A transgression, especially the wrongful exercise of lawful authority.

Usage examples:

In contrast with the tort of misfeasance in public office, bad faith is not an ingredient of the to…

Meanings of Misfeasor:

noun

A person who commits a misfeasance.

Meanings of Misfeasors:

noun

A person who commits a misfeasance.

Meanings of Misfeature:

noun

A distorted feature, distortion; a bad feature or trait.

Meanings of Misfeatured:

adjective

Having bad or distorted features; misshapen.

Meanings of Misfield:

verb

(in cricket and rugby) field (a ball) badly or clumsily.

Usage examples:

He chucks it at mccallum, who misfields it

noun

(in cricket and rugby) a failure to field a ball correctly.

Usage examples:

He was run out after attempting a quick single to a warne misfield