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Example sentences for "misplaced"

Lexicographically close words:
misnamed; misnomer; misogynist; misogyny; misplace; misplacement; misplacing; misprint; misprinted; misprints
  1. She thought I knew, had found out about her--and now I see that my misplaced honesty, the way I spoke, must have given colour to it.

  2. Misplaced in this superior age, he was sans peur and she sans reproche.

  3. I know not how it is, but I seem misplaced in life.

  4. False touches and misplaced beauties are indeed not wanting.

  5. This date is misplaced in my text and should be transferred from p.

  6. Abdu'l-lah Mirza Shah-rukhi for a date misplaced in my text.

  7. It will be thought that either the word Baboon is misplaced or the barring is wrong, but it is not so.

  8. Boxes had been removed from the shelves, containers misplaced and files disturbed.

  9. He could always recall what became of his misplaced things.

  10. The committee possessed no initiative of its own, and I felt myself misplaced upon it.

  11. It taught that in such cases all mercy was misplaced unless the heretic became a convert, and proved his sincerity by denouncing all his fellows.

  12. The other force, under the Bishop of Puy, had put to ransom Caussade and St. Antonin, and was generally censured for this misplaced avaricious mercy.

  13. The consequence of this misplaced lenity was the emboldenment of the heretics.

  14. All such acts of misplaced mercy were pronounced void, and Zoen was ordered to reimpose all such penalties without appeal.

  15. He was more ludicrously, more painfully, misplaced than they.

  16. If this or that subject race threw off our yoke, I should feel less vexation than if one comma were misplaced in the printing of this essay.

  17. Because I was the newest employee, he directed many explicit implications toward me, essentially blaming me for numerous misplaced bolts of material which he had gathered throughout the store and brought to the counter.

  18. When the speech was over and the misplaced cloth returned, we all fled from the store; company morale, I previously learned, had suffered under this manager.

  19. I had not been responsible for the misplaced bolts of cloth, for I'd not seen those particular patterns that day; a customer could easily have decided against the material and stashed it in the nearest rack.

  20. Unfortunately, I misplaced the mental note, and the lights were grinning at us upon our return an hour or so later.

  21. It will be convenient to discuss these passages in the order they occupy in the volume of the New Testament: that which stands first affords a conspicuous instance of undue and misplaced subjectivity.

  22. The first is probably misplaced to begin with, and the second inserted to complete the couplet (see note).

  23. Even friendly journalists in the spring of 1858 wrote of him as 'the most signal example that the present time affords of the man of speculation misplaced and lost in the labyrinth of practical politics.

  24. When Mr. Gladstone returned to England in March 1859, he found the conservatives with much ineffectual industry, some misplaced ingenuity, and many misgivings and divisions, trying their hands at parliamentary reform.

  25. They would go hunting among foremen and in machine shops for the misplaced geniuses, tried by wrong standards, underpaid for having other gifts.

  26. But if such importunities prevail, the chances are that books will be misplaced by the very literary expert who has solemnly asserted his infallibility.

  27. But in the case of books misplaced by readers, no such tracing out of the whereabouts of any volume is effectual, for the reason that the book may have been (and probably is) put on some shelf where it does not belong.

  28. Extravagant and misplaced eulogiums neither honor the one who bestows them, nor the persons who receive them.

  29. Avoiding all misplaced familiarity, he calls her Miss until returning from church, on the day of marriage; he accompanies her in all assemblies, and shows himself a devoted suitor.

  30. We should especially avoid throwing out any vindictive remarks, bestowing misplaced compliments, or imposing forfeits which would cause mortification.

  31. A misplaced and mis-married man; always, as it were, playing hide and seek with the world; and never finding what Fortune seems to have hidden when he was born.

  32. He came to the conclusion that it must be one of two things: either that George Godolphin had inadvertently misplaced it, or that it had been stolen out and out.

  33. He tossed the keys here; he tossed them there; little heeding how he misplaced them.

  34. They knew how she had idolized him; they must have known how blindly misplaced that idolatry was; and the red flush mounted to Maria's brow at the thought.

  35. I was going to scold him sharply for his misplaced zeal, and I could not help laughing.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "misplaced" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amiss; awry; cockeyed; deranged; disarranged; discomfited; discomposed; disconcerted; dislocated; disordered; disorderly; disorganized; disturbed; haywire; improper; inadmissible; inapplicable; inapposite; inappropriate; inapt; inept; infelicitous; irrelevant; lost; misguided; mismatched; misplaced; perturbed; place; roily; shuffled; turbid; turbulent; unadapted; unapt; unbecoming; unbefitting; unfit; unqualified; unseasonable; unseemly; unsettled; unsuitable; unsuited; untimely; upset