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misplaced

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mis·place  (ms-pls)
tr.v. mis·placed, mis·plac·ing, mis·plac·es
1.
a. To put into a wrong place: misplace punctuation in a sentence.
b. To mislay: I misplaced my wallet.
2. To bestow (confidence, for example) on an improper, unsuitable, or unworthy person or idea.

mis·placement n.

misplaced
Adjective
1. (of an emotion or action) directed towards a person or thing that does not deserve it: misplaced optimism
2. put in the wrong place: a scrappy game dominated by misplaced kicking
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.misplaced - put in the wrong place or position; "She was penalized for a spelling mistake or a misplaced accent"
disarranged - having the arrangement disturbed; not in order; "her disarranged hair"
2.misplaced - lost temporarily; as especially put in an unaccustomed or forgotten place; "the mislaid hat turned up eventually"; "misplaced tickets"
lost - no longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered; "a lost child"; "lost friends"; "his lost book"; "lost opportunities"
Translations
misplaced [mɪsˈpleɪst] misplace adj (misguided) → unangebracht;
(wrongly positioned) → an der falschen Stelle


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Perhaps you may be ashamed to meet me, as you were before, but you NEED not feel like that--such shame would be misplaced.
Then a small gentleman, very young-looking but very malignant, began to say that it would probably be agreeable to the marshal of the province to give an account of his expenditures of the public moneys, and that the misplaced delicacy of the members of the committee was depriving him of this moral satisfaction.
Women, more especially -- in the continually recurring trials of wounded, wasted, wronged, misplaced, or erring and sinful passion -- or with the dreary burden of a heart unyielded, because unvalued and unsought came to Hester's cottage, demanding why they were so wretched, and what the remedy
 
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