misdoing

mis·do

[mis-doo] verb, mis·did, mis·done, mis·do·ing.
verb (used with object)
1.
to do badly or wrongly; botch.
verb (used without object)
2.
Obsolete. to behave improperly.

Origin:
before 950; Middle English misdon, Old English misdōn. See mis-1, do1

mis·do·er, noun
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misdo
O.E. misdon, "to do evil or wrong," common Gmc. compound (cf. O.Fris. misdua, M.Du. misdoen, Ger. misstun); see mis- (1) + do. Meaning "to do (work, etc.) improperly" is from 1840.
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Misdoing is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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