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Amiss

adverb

Away from the correct or expected course. Synonym: awry. "Something went badly amiss in the preparations"

In an improper or mistaken or unfortunate manner. "He spoke amiss" , "No one took it amiss when she spoke frankly"

In an imperfect or faulty way. Synonym: imperfectly. "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more"

adjective

Not functioning properly. Synonyms: awry, haywire, wrong. "Has gone completely haywire" , "Something is wrong with the engine"

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"Amiss" Quotes from Famous Books

... just thinking of looking about him a little in the world. The eel breeder of Zjaltring had an uncle in Alt-Skage, who was a fisherman, but at the same time a prosperous merchant, who had ships upon the sea; he was said to be a good old man, and it would not be amiss to enter his service. Alt-Skage lies in the extreme north of Jutland, as far removed from the Hunsby dunes as one can travel in that country; and this is just what pleased Juergen, for he did not want to remain till ...

— What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales • Hans Christian Andersen

... work your passage out; but anyways this half-crown won't come amiss—we'll put it down in the ledger with the rest of the good debt accounts. You'll look out for your uncle—a foine dark man with brown eyes like your own, only maybe not so shiny. Give my best respecks to him, and tell him ...

— Dick Lionheart • Mary Rowles Jarvis

... back again to Mayonnaise. From Mayonnaise, forward again to ham sandwiches and blancmange; and then back once more (on the word of an honest woman) to Mayonnaise! His drinking was on the same scale as his eating. Beer, wine, brandy—nothing came amiss to him; he mixed them all. As for the lighter elements in the feast—the almonds and raisins, the preserved ginger and the crystallized fruits, he ate them as accompaniments to everything. A dish of olives especially won his favor. He plunged ...

— Poor Miss Finch • Wilkie Collins

... that he had been disturbed by reports which had reached him relative to innovations with which Anicetus was identified; and that, apprehending mischief to the whole Christian community from anything going amiss in a Church of such importance, he was prompted, at his advanced age, to undertake so formidable a journey, in the hope that, by the weight of his personal influence with his brethren in the Imperial city, he ...

— The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious • W. D. (William Dool) Killen

... was jolly, to the point of humor. It was the mood of mixed feelings, prominent among which is jealousy, where one waxes jocose in spite of himself. Evan even rallied Frankie on certain personal matters. She did not take it amiss; it rather relieved the ...

— A Canadian Bankclerk • J. P. Buschlen

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