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misadvised

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Etymology

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    From mis- + advised.

    Verb

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    misadvised

    1. simple past and past participle of misadvise

    Adjective

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    misadvised (comparative more misadvised, superlative most misadvised)

    1. (obsolete) Showing poor judgement, ill-advised, injudicious.
      • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 20–23:
        Therefore to make complaynt
        Of such mysadvysed
        Parsons and dysgysed,
        Thys boke we have devysed, []

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