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misintended
misintended
English
Verb
misintended
- simple past tense and past participle of misintend
Etymology 2
Adjective
misintended (not comparable)
- Aimed amiss.
- The damsel broke his misintended dart. — Spenser.
- 1992, Joseph F. Graham, Onomatopoetics: Theory of Language and Literature - Page 233:
- An action can thus be misconceived or misintended even when executed perfectly, because intentions themselves have purposes beyond the realization of an action.