Meaning

To mold improperly, producing an unintended result..

Definitions by Sense

1. To mold improperly, producing an unintended result.
2. The act of mismolding.

Example Sentences

Overindulgence in certain "malignant” or disabling wishes, and for them parents and teachers should early be on guard, is likely to deform or mismold the personality.

It is possible then that Commoner believes that the essential character of modern science has been mismolded by the "vested interests" of its practitioners, and their relations to major segments of society—a curious political materialism for one who is so skeptical of simplistic scientific materialism.

All those days of grinding it out on the road, all those highway bumps and the hours in that vibrating cab had mismolded his body, compacting his organs down along his waist and padding that cargo with sedentary fat, so that he'd taken on the appearnace of a pear with legs.

The same can be said of the altar 151, which was fired even though seriously mismolded.

Hydrostructionists, for this reason, have shifted to the use of imperfect concrete pipe, which is culled from construction damaged items or factory mismolds, with a great deal of success.

Word Forms

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