misimprovement

misimprovement

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ improvement

Noun

misimprovement (plural misimprovements)

1. Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for misimprovement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)