misaddress
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of misaddress
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The victims of the 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole suffered a major setback at the Supreme Court on Tuesday over the seemingly innocuous question of whether they misaddressed notice of their lawsuit.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2019
Similar to one that had been sent to Eric H. Holder Jr., the former attorney general, the envelopes were misaddressed and were redirected to Ms. Wasserman Schultz’s return address.
From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2018
Another device apparently intended for the man who served as Mr. Obama’s attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., was misaddressed.
From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2018
From 2011 to 2015, I probably sent more than 51 misaddressed emails and had more than eight encounters with malware all by myself.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2016
The third was not only misaddressed but was enclosed in one of the B. & W. envelopes--this as I later learned, for a reason.
From The Secrets of the German War Office by Graves, Dr. Armgaard Karl
“The practice of misaddressing immigration documents places extreme burdens on asylum-seekers, nonprofit organizations and the U.S. courts,” said Bill Gangluff, chief communications officer at Catholic Charities USA.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2022
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