mislay
verb (used with object)
to lose temporarily; misplace.
mislays
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present tense formof mislay (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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
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 Sir Owen Seaman
And that boy of mine is such a stupid fellow; he loses or mislays the letters somehow—I can’t understand how.
From Post Haste by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Near to Beggary.—Even the richest intellect sometimes mislays the key to the room in which his hoarded treasures repose.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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 Alfred Henry Lewis
