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