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misgroom en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + groom.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To groom badly or wrongly.
   • He was a great human tic, a wonderment of misgrooming. 2009, Daniel A. Hoyt, Then We Saw the Flames: Stories, →ISBN, page 87:
   • He envisioned himself, before a crowded lecture hall, delivering a squelching witticism upon the head of a misgroomed, bepimpled sophomore, though he could not think of the remark offhand. 2017, William Kamowski, Buckeye's Ballet, →ISBN:
   • Straggly-haired Mr Rhind-Tutt has been miscast, misdirected and misgroomed. 2009 December 11, Quentin Letts, “Shocks and Men”, in Daily Mail:

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