misstamp
/mɪsˈstæmp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To stamp incorrectly.
noun
Example Sentences
- "One of the main purposes of the committee is the investigation and prosecutions of violators of the National Stamping Act, viz: those merchants who misstamp jewelry and to help weed out from the trade this class of dishonest merchants."
- "Pravel, et al. (attorneys at law) notified the Director of Inspection and Enforcement on September 14, 1981, that WFI had been supplied with bar stock which had been misstamped in terms of material type."
- "This procedure will serve to eliminate claims that Customs misstamped the date of presentation, an allegation often made in one-day late cases."
- "Like every Western culture preceding it, Renaissance society was gendered to the advantage of the adult male, who served as the template for all of humankind, women and children having been misstamped for other uses."
- "And those gilded palaces where hands are dirty she leaves, averting her eyes; she goes to what is clean, for she doesn't honor power whose coinage is misstamped by the praise of the rich."
- "Aren't there cases where there might be a technical violation, where on explanation of the manufacturer involved, there could be found a reasonable explanation, that by some misstamp or carelessness or failing to carry out orders, the thing occurred, and yet if your plan were to be put into effect, immediately there was any sort of action taken, there would be publicity given to that fact."