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misprosecute

verb

Etymology

From mis- + prosecute.

  1. borrowed from prōsecūtus
  2. prefixed as misprosecute — “mis + prosecute”

Definitions

  1. To prosecute badly or ineptly.

    • […] there is a resonable basis to question that Cannada has deliberately and fraudulently misinvestigated or misprosecuted allegations with the aim of shielding a suspected war criminal;
    • Child-abuse scandals are prosecuted and misprosecuted with almost Salem-witch-trial fervor.
    • Bucky the Beater, who'd made a career out of misprosecuting gangsters, finally hitting one because the jerk confessed—at least he hadn't fucked that one up.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA