missend
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of missend
First recorded in 1400–50, missend is from the late Middle English word missenden. See mis- 1, send 1
Example Sentences
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That person was probably trying to overcompensate for the attitudes you saw in the missent email and to make you feel welcome.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
She sat upstairs for hours, and gazed over the railing at the rows of men who were opening and examining thousands of missent letters.
From Harper's Round Table, October 22, 1895 by Various
It will permit the employment of the telegraph in tracing a missent letter or package, rectifying an erroneous address, discovering the whereabouts of an absentee, etc.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
I was certain that no one knew that it had been missent.
From The Expressman and the Detective by Pinkerton, Allan
This package was intended for a party in Columbus, Ga. It had been missent, and forwarded by mistake to Atlanta, instead of to Macon, and from Atlanta to me in Montgomery.
From The Expressman and the Detective by Pinkerton, Allan
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