What is "misplace"

Usage examples of "misplace".

Good Queen Bess and happened to notice a misplaced apostrophe in a royal decree.

Misplaced sympathy is the least available of superfluities, and Bernard at this time found himself thinking that there was a good deal of impertinence in the world.

And knowing Lipari, he could easily pass off his sponsorship of Altim Burka as misplaced.

But they were men prepared to kill to maintain an idea, a notion of freedom so misplaced that it had cost Antoine de la Mery, and his crew, all that they owned.

She wanted to be mistaken, to have misplaced, miscounted the essentially interchangeable stock, but knew at once that no amount of wishful thinking, checking, rechecking the shelves, could erase the stubborn fact of loss gaping up at her from the mockingly vacant slots of the gem trays.

Her jaw was rigid, her mouth unresponding, so much so that he wondered if his confidence had been misplaced.

An increasing number of the burghers were volunteering for service against their own people, and it was found that all fears as to this delicate experiment were misplaced, and that in the whole army there were no keener and more loyal soldiers.

The cloak had not put out the fire entirely, though, and quenching the flames that sprang up here and there had entailed a great deal of excitement and rushing about, in the course of which Orrie McCallum was misplaced, toddled off, and fell into the groundhog kiln, where he was foundmany frantic minutes laterby Rollo.

I had pushed in there earlier by mistake, through the misplaced endotracheal tube.

I bore with this singularly misplaced curiosity, but when it came to his saying that he would have followed us if he had had any money, I spoke to him in a manner that made him turn pale.

The house was a graceful neoclassic beauty misplaced among New England maples and hemlocks, and he envisioned, as he had so often in the past, a home more destined for music and laughter: lovely balls with candlelit chandeliers and swirling couples, charming girls in flowing skirts, dashing young gentlemen.

Keller had misplaced his plainspoken first officer and his fanciful bosun, each newly appointed, each desperately needed.

Rosa, better able to estimate the change of manner than Miss Lucas was, who did not know how little this Sawny was afflicted with misplaced dignity, looked wistfully and distressed at her.

Joseph Riggin was led away to have his hand sutured while Sally Marcheson removed the misplaced X rays.

Whether out of misplaced ambition, because she fancied she might make a better impression on this trip than usually at home on Voosla, or out of jealousy of Awb, or simply out of bad temper because of what Axwep had said to her last dark, she had insisted on coming along.