Misask

Quick meaning: Misask is a verb meaning (transitive, rare) to ask amiss; ask badly, wrongfully, or incorrectly.

Meaning

(transitive, rare) to ask amiss; ask badly, wrongfully, or incorrectly.

Example Sentences

Mr. Morris. Did that include the five seamen now in Moscow? I may have misasked the question then.

As Godot marks its sixtieth year in the repertory of world drama and as Beckett criticism itself likewise marks some sixty plus years of existence, we might ask ourselves, readers and spectators of Beckett's oeuvre, whether or not we have been mis-asking questions about Beckett's art.

Word Forms

• misasks
• misasking
• misasked
• mis-ask

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misanswer, misgive, misintend, mistaste, misaccount, missay.

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