Word Meanings - MISSPEECH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Wrong speech.
Related words: (words related to MISSPEECH)
- SPEECHLESS
1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n. - SPEECHIFYING
The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold. - WRONGOUS
Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful. - WRONG
imp. of Wring. Wrung. Chaucer. - SPEECHFUL
Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious. - SPEECHIFY
To make a speech; to harangue. - WRONGLESS
Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney. - WRONGDOING
Evil or wicked behavior or action. - SPEECHIFICATION
The act of speechifying. - WRONGFUL
Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing. -- Wrong"ful*ly, adv. -- Wrong"ful*ness, n. - WRONGHEAD
A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character. - WRONG-TIMED
Done at an improper time; ill-timed. - SPEECHMAKER
One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly. - SPEECH
speak; akin to D. spraak speech, OHG. sprahha, G. sprache, Sw. spr, 1. The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking. There is none comparable to the - WRONGNESS
The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault. The best great wrongnesses within themselves. Bp. Butler. The rightness or wrongness of this view. Latham. - WRONGDOER
One who commits a tort or trespass; a trespasser; a tort feasor. Ayliffe. (more info) 1. One who injures another, or who does wrong. - WRONGLY
In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak. - WRONGHEADED
Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse. -- Wrong"head`ed*ly, adv. -- Wrong"head`ed*ness, n. Macaulay. - WRONGER
One who wrongs or injures another. Shak. "Wrongers of the world." Tennyson. - SPEECHIFIER
One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. G. Eliot. - VISIBLE SPEECH
A system of characters invented by Prof. Alexander Melville Bell to represent all sounds that may be uttered by the speech organs, and intended to be suggestive of the position of the organs of speech in uttering them. - INTERSPEECH
A speech interposed between others. Blount. - FORESPEECH
A preface. Sherwood. - AWRONG
Wrongly. Ford. - BY-SPEECH
An incidental or casual speech, not directly relating to the point. "To quote by-speeches." Hooker. - SELF-WRONG
Wrong done by a person himself. Shak.