missway
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To sway or influence to an unfortunate result.
Example Sentences
- "Through misswaying, it seemed to decline."
- "The swiftness of motion or violent passions will missway our inclinations or propensions, though in themselves moderate, as far as the settled weight of an habituate inclination or custom."
- "In particular, warning is given against the tendency, especially on the part of the uninformed (sometimes misinformed or misswayed ) public which in the end not only profits by but supports research, to emphasize, to expect, to reward disproportionately, the applications of undramatic, unspectacular, "endless" basic research."