And yet the examples are not at all rare in which the attendant circumstances of the mislaying point to a tendency temporarily or permanently to get rid of the object.
Losing and mislaying objects is of especial interest to us because of the ambiguity and the multiplicity of tendencies in whose services the errors may act.
In the group based on forgetfulness (forgetting names or projects, mislaying objects, etc.
Let us, therefore, turn to a particularly ambiguous and untransparent error, that of losing and mislaying objects.
In a third class this characteristic of transience is lacking, as for example in mislaying things so that they cannot be found again, or in the analogous case of losing things.
I am a great hand at mislaying things--it's my besetting sin.
You may be a great hand at mislaying things--I don't know much about that; but I do know that you're a wonder at hiding them.
Was the mislaying of a hypodermic needle such a heinous offence?
Lady Juliana never reads like anybody else," said her daughter; "she is for ever mislaying books.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mislaying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
