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Word Meanings - MISBESTOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bestow improperly.

Related words: (words related to MISBESTOW)

  • IMPROPERLY
    In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
  • BESTOWMENT
    1. The act of giving or bestowing; a conferring or bestowal. If we consider this bestowment of gifts in this view. Chauncy. 2. That which is given or bestowed. They almost refuse to give due praise and credit to God's own bestowments. I. Taylor.
  • BESTOWAL
    The act of bestowing; disposal.
  • BESTOW
    Etym: 1. To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put. "He bestowed it in a pouch." Sir W. Scott. See that the women are bestowed in safety. Byron. 2. To use; to apply; to devote, as time or strength in some
  • BESTOWER
    One that bestows.
  • MISBESTOW
    To bestow improperly.
  • MISBESTOWAL
    The act of misbestowing.

 

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