misstaple

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ staple.

Verb

misstaple (third-person singular simple present misstaples, present participle misstapling, simple past and past participle misstapled)

1. To staple improperly.
   • 1965, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 223:

     Additional reason for discarding the testimony to the effect that there were as many as 1,350 booklets improperly stapled, is the fact that, after first evading an answer to a question concerning an alleged statement two days after the discharge that only two hundred booklets had been misstapled, Sweren finally took the position that he did not " think that ( he ) did (state a figure as to the number of improperly stapled booklets) because (he didn't) think that (he) knew then how many there were involved."

   • 1987, The South Carolina Review - Volumes 20-21, page 53:

     And he has a penchant for young nurses and expensive cognac and he misstapled some poor woman's stomach.

   • 2014, Catherine Compton-Lilly, Erica Halverson, Time and Space in Literacy Research, page 90:

     Similarly, Rebeca's text was not only misstapled but misread as lacking coherence.

   • 2022, Junnosuke Masumi, Contemporary Politics in Japan, page 111:

     The draft of his speech had been misstapled.

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