Mispursue

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To pursue in the wrong way.

    "A study, complete with statistics and history, of the American legal profession as it has been pursued and mispursued in the past couple of hundred years."

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"A study, complete with statistics and history, of the American legal profession as it has been pursued and mispursued in the past couple of hundred years."

Etymology

From mis- + pursue.

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