misask

English

Alternative forms

• mis-ask

Etymology

From Middle English *misasken (suggested by derivative misasked), equivalent to mis- +‎ ask.

Verb

misask (third-person singular simple present misasks, present participle misasking, simple past and past participle misasked)

1. (transitive, rare) to ask amiss; ask badly, wrongfully, or incorrectly
   • 1956, Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States:

     Mr. Morris. Did that include the five seamen now in Moscow?
     I may have misasked the question then.

   • 2014, S. E. Gontarski, Creative Involution:

     As Godot marks its sixtieth year in the repertory of world drama and as Beckett criticism itself likewise marks some sixty plus years of existence, we might ask ourselves, readers and spectators of Beckett's oeuvre, whether or not we have been mis-asking questions about Beckett's art.

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