mislays
- present tense form of mislay (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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All the same, who would have thought it could be so much fun to be trapped inside the head of the type of person who so radically mislays herself?
From Time Magazine Archive
Enviable stoicism that mislays the keepsake of some poor widow, or lames the old curate's cob, the fond companion of many rambles.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
Having duly impressed "Good King Wenceslas" upon us, it is now rendering an emotional waltz, of which, though now and then it may drop a note or two, it mislays none of the pathos.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 30, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
"Well, Burt's good-hearted, but sometimes he mislays his judgment," said Webb, laughing.
From Nature's Serial Story by Roe, Edward Payson
I shore don't know how I mislays my se'f-respect to sech a pitch as to go settin' into these yere paltry plays.'
From Wolfville Days by Lewis, Alfred Henry
