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Misthrow

Misthrow \Mis*throw"\, v. t. To throw wrongly.

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misthrow

n. An incorrect throw. vb. (context transitive English) To throw incorrectly.

Usage examples of "misthrow".

Arthur had seen what remained of any Perfectly Normal Beast which, as the result of a clumsy misthrow by a young and inexperienced Lamuellan hunter, got speared while still thundering and pounding with the herd.

The monster, seeing the approaching blade, leaped to the side—right into the misthrown sword.

He had assumed that jinxes had canceled out when his misthrown sword cut her down, but that had not been the case.

Racer looked down at the papers on his desk — seldom were there any — and gave Jury a kind of side-swipe grin, like a misthrown punch.

Karl disabused him of that notion with a misthrown bomb that sent sand flying into the air, and the man flying for cover.

There were a few misthrows, Shoka in particular had hit the target so hard, and at such a bad angle, that the axe bounced back practically to the onlookers.