(adv.) Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
(a.) Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.
(n.) A fault, wrong, or mistake.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The economy, stupid" is a plausible-sounding answer, but it is stupidly amiss.
(2) T-Mobile: ‘Restricted Bling’ (starts at 10:21) Rap star Drake demonstrates extraordinary compliance no matter what’s asked of him in this funny advert for T-Mobile which aims to suggest that the network’s rivals “ruin everything”, but a longer version with him actually incorporating the lines “device eligible for upgrade after 24 months” and “streaming music will incur data charges” into his song wouldn’t go amiss.
(3) The coroner found that Ben continued to "play enthusiastically", and "displayed no immediately obvious physical signs that anything was amiss", but in the video, his symptoms clearly tally with those described on the Scat card.
(4) How this flora is controlled and what is amiss when virulent or pathogenic bacteria can cause infection are fascinating questions.
(5) This is the first time in my reread I've found something amiss: a King novel that doesn't have the story to back itself up.
(6) They do seem entirely unaware of contradictions in their arguments – Senator Cory Bernardi, for example, seeing nothing amiss in attacking Turnbull for distracting from the government’s message by responding when commentator Andrew Bolt accused him of leadership manoeuvring on national television and a nationally-syndicated newspaper column.
(7) Even the Guardian found nothing amiss in running a story about this and not quoting anyone who currently sells sex .
(8) Yes, of course it is, but a bit of humility amongst politicians never goes amiss.
(9) But more self-imposed quarantine wouldn't go amiss; more baristas who stay home; more coffee cups that remain untouched by those malign particles.
(10) Michael’s mam, my mother-in-law, rang our landline, which was a sign something was amiss, and tearfully delivered the news that Michael had taken his own life.
(11) This is not to say grassroot efforts may go amiss but we must not forget the historical socio-economic issues countries are still entrenched in.
(12) When the fixture list came out Advocaat would have fancied Sunderland’s chances of having six points by now but something looks seriously amiss within a side requiring a radical rebuild.
(13) The residents of Wang Kelian sensed something was amiss when a number of people stumbled on to their streets, weak and injured, and began to beg for food and water.
(14) Selby can't hit the yellow, so foul and amiss is called, and then again - this time he gets much closer.
(15) That isn’t, of course, because the NHS has taken to medieval blood-letting techniques, but rather because those who showed up at the infirmary door will have disproportionately had something seriously amiss.
(16) He is showing encouraging signs of having got the social care message, but a little forceful reminding cannot go amiss.
(17) Many new possibilities for treatment which have appeared recently have resulted from the amission of page limitation.
(18) Physiocal examination on amission demonstrated revealed a pulsating mass in the midabdomen, absence of pulsation of the right femoral artery and cold pale skin of the right leg.
(19) I wouldn’t imagine that people will get enough to cover their whole costs, but I would think that a payment to at least cover some expenses wouldn’t go amiss,” he said.
(20) A couple of days off in Blackburn wouldn't go amiss.
Miss
Definition:
(n.) A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
(n.) A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen.
(n.) A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4.
(n.) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
(v. t.) To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said.
(v. t.) To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons.
(v. t.) To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want.
(v. i.) To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction.
(v. i.) To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of.
(v. i.) To go wrong; to err.
(v. i.) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
(n.) The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc.
(n.) Loss; want; felt absence.
(n.) Mistake; error; fault.
(n.) Harm from mistake.
Example Sentences:
(1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
(2) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(3) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
(4) He missed the start of the season while rehabbing from last season's ankle injury, played exactly six games with the Los Angeles Lakers before getting hurt again and even if he's healthy he may still sit the game out .
(5) In that respect, it's difficult to see Allen's anthem as little more than same old same old, and it's probably why I ultimately feel she misses the mark.
(6) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
(7) The striker missed the whole 2006-07 season but returned to make 35 appearances in 2007-08.
(8) They would say 'Here comes Miss Marple' when I came by."
(9) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
(10) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
(11) The type of semantic categories missing from the UMLS consisted mainly of modifier information relating to certainty, degree, and change type of information.
(12) On the other hand, the total number of missing hair cells, irrespective of location, was a good, general indicator of the hearing capacity in a given ear.
(13) They said it shows Bergdahl, now 27, in poorer health than previous footage taken in the years since he went missing in Afghanistan on 30 June 2009.
(14) Phosphoglucomutase 1, an enzyme mapping on the short arms of chromosome 1, is constantly missing in the leukemic cell line K-562 in spite of the presence of three No.
(15) We report a case of popliteal vein obstruction by an osteochondroma, arising from the proximal tibia, in which the diagnosis was initially missed.
(16) the EcoR1 fragment of 8.6 kbp length which contains the oriC region (Marsh and Worcel, 1977; v. Meyenburg et al., 1977; Yasuda and Hirota, 1977) is missing.
(17) In patients with less than 15 diverticula, 3.1% of lesions were missed, while in those with more than 15 diverticula, 20.4% of tumors were undetected.
(18) The fitting element to a Cabrera victory would have been thus: the final round of the 77th Masters fell on the 90th birthday of Roberto De Vicenzo, the great Argentine golfer who missed out on an Augusta play-off by virtue of signing for the wrong score.
(19) Thirty-eight bodies have been removed from the mass graves, but DNA tests have shown that none is that of a missing student.
(20) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.