misdecorate

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ decorate.

Verb

misdecorate (third-person singular simple present misdecorates, present participle misdecorating, simple past and past participle 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."

Anagrams

• comiserated, acidometers, democraties, democratise, cresotamide, semicordate