(v. t.) To lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source.
(v. t.) To lay in a place not recollected; to lose.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was responsible for securing vital uranium-enrichment technology, photographing centrifuge blueprints that a German executive had been bribed into temporarily "mislaying" in his kitchen.
(2) The diagnosis of mislaying forms of pulmonary embolism, where even angiography was not pathognomonic, induced the use of a phlebography on lower limbs in patients where this diagnosis was suspected.
(3) Puma Phone - Mobile World Congress 2010 If you're inclined to mislay your charger, the solar panel on the back might appeal too.
(4) The Way Home, a forthcoming thriller starring Dean Cain as a dad who finds God when he mislays his toddler, looks set to better them both.
(5) For one party to mislay its instinct for self-preservation may be regarded as a passing misfortune.
(6) All data is held on secure servers and not on my device, so I don't have to worry about revealing confidential patient data if I mislay it.
(7) NHS accused of covering up huge data loss that put thousands at risk Read more “As of 31 May 2017, the review of the backlog of correspondence has found 1,788 cases of potential harm to patients.” However, family doctors who have been paid £2.5m to determine if the mislaying of letters has harmed patients have yet to give their judgment in 218,120 (31%) of cases.
(8) Five hundred patients may have suffered serious harm as a result of the NHS mislaying 500,000 test results and letters over a five-year period, ministers and officials have admitted in parliament.
(9) Yet he could also be hopelessly disorganised, forever mislaying coats and bags, phones and passports, even our entire election plans.
Misplace
Definition:
(v. t.) To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several extrastriate areas have been found to contain maps of the contralateral visual hemifield that are disorderly in the sense that the representation of various parts of the visual field are often misplaced or grossly over-or under-represented.
(2) The attempt by the IPCC to explain away its failure to interview officers due to a lack of power is misplaced: it is in fact simply due to of a lack of will.
(3) Two of the six cases showed pseudoinvasion of the appendix and in a further case the appendix had perforated with extrusion of a misplaced neoplasm.
(4) This also shows that there is no great measure of misplacement on the basis of the current norm, although the suitability of this norm in sheltered housing is open to question.
(5) Disoriented by the early goal, they waged a frantic war in the middle of the pitch, exchanging misplaced passes.
(7) We conclude that a misplaced chest tube compressing the right ventricle can impede cardiac output and lead to a low cardiac output state.
(8) In one patient, the catheter was misplaced in the right atrium, one patient developed pyopericardium and one patient developed transient tachycardia.
(9) It may also be timely to appear more serious, seeing as Paddy seems to have misplaced its sense of humour of late, Betfair never had one in the first place, and rivals trying to emulate the old Paddy-style jokes look very tired.
(10) This case shows that abdominal and pelvic x-ray examinations may not adequately show a misplaced IUD in a gravid woman, and further workup is necessary after delivery if the IUD is not clearly visible on the initial x-ray films.
(11) Early expectations that Coulson might help Cameron to win over Murdoch, who has publicly questioned his credentials as a future prime minister, may have been misplaced.
(12) A demoralised workforce performs less efficiently, and a less-efficient system can be broken up and sold to private firms.” The Department of Heath insists these fears are misplaced.
(13) The Oklahoma prison admitted that the drugs and IV fluid “infiltrated” and “extravasated” into the tissues of Lockett’s groin because of the misplaced catheter, and that is why the execution was prolonged and botched.
(14) He would spend days and nights hunkered down in his small uptown Dallas apartment pouring through troves of hacked documents, writing blog posts about US government intelligence contractors and their "misplaced power" while working to garner wider media coverage.
(15) Fine-bore tubes are easily misplaced or dislodged; ensure correct positioning both before and during feeding.
(16) Indeed, the thousands signing up to membership in recent days suggest that my optimism is not misplaced.
(17) Its correlate among ganglion cells backfilled from tectum is apparently a very sparse population of small-bodied cells mixed with a variable population of misplaced ganglion cells of varying size and type.
(18) Eva Zhong, the head of exports for a fireworks manufacturer in Hunan province, said that the government's fireworks warnings were misplaced.
(19) Nothing will happen soon, and London’s optimism is almost certainly misplaced.
(20) He concludes: "If journalists, for reasons of nostalgia, inertia, confusion or misplaced loyalty, choose to keep swimming with the privacy intruders, they may well drown with them."