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.