miscreate

[ verb mis-kree-eyt; adjective mis-kree-it, -eyt ]

verb (used with or without object)

, mis·cre·at·ed, mis·cre·at·ing.

1. to create amiss or deformed.

adjective

1. miscreated.

miscreate

verb

1. to create (something) badly or incorrectly

adjective

1. archaic.
   badly or unnaturally formed or made

Derived Forms

• ˌmiscreˈation, noun

Other Words From

• miscre·ation noun
• miscre·ative adjective
• miscre·ator noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of miscreate¹

First recorded in 1580–90; mis- ¹ + create

Example Sentences

"The image has somewhat been miscreated, in the sense that I haven't seen any videos on TV of all the violence that was happening preceding that," Barr said.

From Fox News

All this is very amiable in him, and the more so, perhaps, as these objects of his affection are the young ones of a race in his opinion miscreated by an evil-working chance.

From Project Gutenberg

This monstrous nomenclature, this jargon of miscreated things in chaos, rose as by nature to his lips, flowed from them as by instinct.

From Project Gutenberg

How many times in my life have I been foiled and baffled by those miscreated men-machines in scarlet blanketing!

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You miscreated scarecrow, dare you shake, Or strike in jest, a natural man like me?—

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