mispaste

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English

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Etymology

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From mis- +‎ paste.

Verb

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mispaste (third-person singular simple present mispastes, present participle mispasting, simple past and past participle mispasted)

  1. To paste incorrectly.
    • 1951, School Arts - Volume 51, page 18:
      One of the girls said later, "I had much trouble making this picture, mispasting the scraps, putting on too much paste, etc.
    • 1987, River Styx - Issues 21-24, page 10:
      An historian should not mispaste his memories.
    • 2021, Nick Montfort, Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, page 129:
      The result should be 170, assuming you didn't add spaces anywhere or mistype or mispaste the text.

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