misdecorateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

misdecorate (三人称単数 現在形 misdecorates, 現在分詞 misdecorating, 過去形および過去分詞形 misdecorated)

1. To decorate incorrectly.
   • 1884 March, “A Shepherd at Court”, in The Overland Monthly, volume 3, number 3, page 271:

     “By George that's not a bad idea of yours, Gurney,” said Mr. Rivers, misdecorating the patentee of the invention with a charming naiveté.

   • 1917, Musical America - Volume 26, page 29:

     Well, not as a rule the shawl-bedecked immigrant you so fondly hoped you were going to help, not the 'harmless and pleasure-loving “flapper,” whom the ladies and society wish “someone could reach,” nor the knot of carefree young men who misdecorate the street corners —oh, no!

   • 2019, Andrew McConnell Stott, What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare:

     Stratfordians were unsure what a “jubilee” was meant to be, and worried whether it might “notify and misdecorate a new Species of Bacchanalian Revelling at Stratford Upon Avon."