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amiss
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Word definitions for amiss in dictionaries
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amiss \A*miss"\, adv. [Pref. a- + miss.] Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss? --Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. --James iv. 3. To take (an act, thing) amiss , to impute a wrong motive ...
Usage examples of amiss.
Even at the distance of a bow shot Seregil could see something amiss in the lines of the figure, some profound wrongness of proportion that disturbed him more than the fact that Alec obviously could not see it himself.
And it was only after all this that Gaar and Arem noticed something was amiss.
Stormed by an attack of his cacoethes scribendi, after those few blank days at Becket, Felix saw nothing amiss with his young daughter.
Every day for a week something was amiss, and, having gone to the length of his own tether, Devers took to saying that it was all Mr.
The wound was nearly healed, but another application of his germander poultice would not be amiss.
The same day I called on Princess Lubomirska and Tomatis, begging them not to take it amiss if my visits were few and far between, as the lady they had seen at Spa was approaching her confinement, and demanded all my care.
No labor came amiss to Cyrus Harding, who thus set an example to his intelligent and zealous companions.
If yo have, remember this, Be a true man to her, An whativver gooas amiss, Keep noa secrets throo her.
Nell hardly noticed this incongruity because the corgis heard Rita turning the latch on the glass doors and rushed toward them yapping, and this drew out the Constable himself, who approached them squinting through the dark glass, and once he was out from behind the rhodies, Nell could see that there was something amiss with the flesh of his body.
Grimsley, who was west of Samawah and out of radio contact with Rutter, knew something was amiss when he checked Blue Force Tracker: there were blue icons in the heart of Samawah.
Shelmerston, could not only recognize the ship but also see the great silver-gilt candlestick taken from a pirate in the Great South Sea and now hoisted to her main topgallant masthead: what was amiss?
Edgar arrived, Sir Hugh told him of the affair, assuring him he should never have taken amiss his preferring Camilla, which he thought but natural, if he had only done it from the first.
Miss Penistone knew then what was amiss: she had had one of her bad nights, poor Elizabeth!
Only Stund remained gazing towards the altar, eyes blinking rapidly, as if unaware of anything amiss.
That was fine with Jimmy, because a bit of synesthesia never went amiss.