Word Meanings - MISTREADING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Misstep; misbehavior. "To punish my mistreadings." Shak.

Related words: (words related to MISTREADING)

• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• PUNISHABLE
  Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness,
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
• MISSTEP
  A wrong step; an error of conduct.
• PUNISHMENT
  A penalty inflicted by a court of justice on a convicted offender as a just retribution, and incidentally for the purposes of reformation and prevention. (more info) 1. The act of punishing. 2. Any pain, suffering, or loss inflicted on a person
• PUNISH
  1. To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a
• DISPUNISHABLE
  Without penal restraint; not punishable. Swift.