misnested

Incorrectly nested.

Adjective

  1. Incorrectly nested.
    • misnested parentheses
    • […] but it also reduces the likelihood of the "unterminated string literal" error message that can easily occur for seemingly trivial reasons when you're working with long strings — an accidental carriage return or a...
    • Netscape is of course pretty buggy, but it generally handles nested tables OK so I suspect your problem is misnested or unclosed table tags […] - 2000, Simon Brooke, “Any chance of Site feedback”, in...

Origin

From mis- + nested.

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of misnest