miscreator

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English

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Etymology

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From mis- +‎ creator.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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miscreator (plural miscreators)

  1. (rare) Someone or something which creates things wrongly or badly.
    • 1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV:
      And Circumstance, that unspiritual god / And miscreator, makes and helps along / Our coming evils with a crutch-like rod
    • 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 3:
      By what “Circumstance, the miscreator” my plans were defeated, the reader will discover in the course of these volumes.

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