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misgesture en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /mɪsˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/
- /mɪsˈd͡ʒɛstjʊə(r)/
Etymology
From mis- + gesture.
Meanings
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A gesture that is made in error.
He understood that if she was as bad as the instructors and professors on the committee claimed, then there were a hundred misturns, missteps and misgestures she would have made that she did not.
2013, Steve Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock:From Faisal's perspective, a more dramatic “misgesture” on the part of the Americans was needed before the oil weapon would be employed.
1977, Mohammed Mughisuddin, Conflict and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf, page 52:
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misgesture en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /mɪsˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/
- /mɪsˈd͡ʒɛstjʊə(r)/
Etymology
From mis- + gesture.
Meanings
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To make the wrong gesture.
He emphasizes as evidence the fact that people sometimes misspeak with a correct gesture, but very rarely misgesture with correct speech.
2008, John Clement, Creative Model Construction in Scientists and Students, page 195:This flesh of ours is not a good feruant, vnlesse it helpe vs in the best offices: The God of Spirits doth most respect the soule of our deuotion; yet, it is both vnmannerly and irreligious, to be misgestured in our Prayers.
1621, Joseph Hall, Meditations and Vowes Divine and Morall, page 824:Touch here? Stroke there? Stop here? Do it again? The impressive fragility of the device only reinforces this sense — to do it wrong by dropping or misgesturing might lead to unknown consequences.
2015, Ian Bogost, The Geek's Chihuahua: Living with Apple:Anyone who misspeaks or misgestures, while trying to maintain a reasonably fast pace, is out of this portion of the exercise.
2014, Jill H. Rathus, Alec L. Miller, DBT® Skills Manual for Adolescents, page 117:
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