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mishoused en · ADJ

Etymology

From mis- + housed.

Meanings

1. Provided with a dwelling or setting that is inadequate.
   • Cohousing still serves only a tiny fraction of the population; the majority of people seem to be mishoused. 2015, Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, Jacqueline Vischer, Edward White, Design Intervention, page 10:
   • The obvious remedy for this problem is the provision of suitable accommodation for all these mishoused patients. 1967, Barbara Robb, Sans Everything: A Case to Answer, page 124:
   • It is the source of many discontents among the millions of mishoused and dishoused families yearning to be rehoused. 1975, George Albert Steiner, Business and Society, page 297:
   • Against the odds, the then head of museums and galleries, Peter Jenkinson, in addition to providing an appropriate setting for the long-mishoused Garman Ryan Collection, envisaged the potential of bringing high culture to the lowest common denominator — no slight intended; the Walsall gallery has Woolworth's and Bhs as its neighbours. 2003, The Architects' Journal - Volume 217, Issues 13-25, page 59:

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