misapplied

Example Sentences

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I therefore doubt that the inscription has been miscopied.

From Notes and Queries, Number 17, February 23, 1850 by Various

But I must have miscopied it, or else the Martians didn't have the objective I thought they did in it, because I could find no alteration of genes affecting lung capacity or oxygen utilization.

From Rebels of the Red Planet by Fontenay, Charles Louis

About this copying: no art is more inoffensively imitated than gardening but unluckily none is more easily, or more absurdly, miscopied.

From The Amateur Garden by Cable, George Washington