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Amiss

adverb

Away from the correct or expected course. Synonym: awry. "Something went badly amiss in the preparations"

In an improper or mistaken or unfortunate manner. "He spoke amiss" , "No one took it amiss when she spoke frankly"

In an imperfect or faulty way. Synonym: imperfectly. "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more" Antonym: perfectly.

adjective

Not functioning properly. Synonyms: awry, haywire, wrong. "Has gone completely haywire" , "Something is wrong with the engine"

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"Amiss" Quotes from Famous Books

... towels, all as white as the driven snow. How we ate, drank, and lodged during our rambles is not the most agreeable of our recollections, and can have little interest except as affording glimpses of the habits of the people. This first essay of Corsican hospitality was not amiss. ...

— Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia - with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. • Thomas Forester

... is not so soon express'd Without your special favour, and the promise Of love and pardon, if I speak amiss. ...

— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. IX • Various

... that the worship of nature spirits and the veneration of ancestors prevail throughout the whole of this vast region and have not been suppressed by Buddhism or Brahmanism. Then coming to the purely Indian sphere, I have thought it might not be amiss to give an epitome of such parts of Indian history as are of importance for religion. Next I endeavour to explain how the social institutions of India and the unique position acquired by the Brahman aristocracy have determined the character of Hindu religion—protean and yet ...

— Hinduism and Buddhism, Vol I. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot

... it amiss that a man, with a warrant still out against him, should seize a brig chartered by Bordeaux merchants. And for that matter, have you never fired a shot or so ...

— A Woman of Thirty • Honore de Balzac

... cried, thinking the laughter to have been an illusion of his hearing, but still, from her changed looks, hoping to have touched her heart—"madam, will not this content you? I give up all to undo what I have done amiss; I make heaven certain for Lord Risingham. And all this upon the very day that I have won my spurs, and thought myself the ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 8 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

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