miscreate

American

[mis-kree-eyt, mis-kree-it, -eyt] / ˌmɪs kriˈeɪt, ˈmɪs kri ɪt, -ˌeɪt /

verb (used with or without object)

miscreated, miscreating

to create amiss or deformed.

adjective

miscreated.

miscreate British

verb

to create (something) badly or incorrectly

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adjective

archaic badly or unnaturally formed or made

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Other Word Forms

miscreation noun
miscreative adjective
miscreator noun

Etymology

Origin of miscreate

First recorded in 1580–90; mis- ¹ + create

Example Sentences

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"The image has somewhat been miscreated, in the sense that I haven't seen any videos on TV of all the violence that was happening preceding that," Barr said.

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All this is very amiable in him, and the more so, perhaps, as these objects of his affection are the young ones of a race in his opinion miscreated by an evil-working chance.

From Project Gutenberg

This monstrous nomenclature, this jargon of miscreated things in chaos, rose as by nature to his lips, flowed from them as by instinct.

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How many times in my life have I been foiled and baffled by those miscreated men-machines in scarlet blanketing!

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You miscreated scarecrow, dare you shake, Or strike in jest, a natural man like me?—

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