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misstaple en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + staple.

Meanings

1. To staple improperly.
   • The draft of his speech had been misstapled. 2022, Junnosuke Masumi, Contemporary Politics in Japan, page 111:
   • And he has a penchant for young nurses and expensive cognac and he misstapled some poor woman's stomach. 1987, The South Carolina Review - Volumes 20-21, page 53:
   • Additional reason for discarding the testimony to the effect that there were as many as 1,350 booklets improperly stapled, is the fact that, after first evading an answer to a question concerning an alleged statement two days after the discharge that only two hundred booklets had been misstapled, Sweren finally took the position that he did not " think that ( he ) did (state a figure as to the number of improperly stapled booklets) because (he didn't) think that (he) knew then how many there were involved." 1965, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 223:
   • Similarly, Rebeca's text was not only misstapled but misread as lacking coherence. 2014, Catherine Compton-Lilly, Erica Halverson, Time and Space in Literacy Research, page 90:

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