mislaid
Speech parts
1. mislaid - Adjective
2. mislaid - Verb
Derived from mislay
4. mislaid - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Mislay
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Examples
Will smirked, clearly pleased at the effect he was having. "I've no idea. I lost consciousness about then. I was having a lovely dream about a young woman who had mislaid all her clothes.
Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.
I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card.
In the excitement and rigours of the game or battle with words and shapes, self-interest is mislaid and objective truth may often be revealed.
the mislaid hat turned up eventually