misgroom

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ groom

Verb

misgroom (third-person singular simple present misgrooms, present participle misgrooming, simple past and past participle misgroomed)

1. (transitive) To groom badly or wrongly.
   • 2009 December 11, Quentin Letts, “Shocks and Men”, in Daily Mail:

     Straggly-haired Mr Rhind-Tutt has been miscast, misdirected and misgroomed.

   • 2009, Daniel A. Hoyt, Then We Saw the Flames: Stories, →ISBN, page 87:

     He was a great human tic, a wonderment of misgrooming.

   • 2017, William Kamowski, Buckeye's Ballet, →ISBN:

     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.