misask
to ask amiss; ask badly, wrongfully, or incorrectly
Verb
- to ask amiss; ask badly, wrongfully, or incorrectly
- Mr. Morris. Did that include the five seamen now in Moscow? I may have misasked the question then. - 1956, Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States:
- As Godot marks its sixtieth year in the repertory of world drama and as Beckett criticism itself likewise marks some sixty plus years of existence, we might ask ourselves, readers and spectators of Beckett's oeuvre,...
Origin
From Middle English *misasken (suggested by derivative misasked), equivalent to mis- + ask.