misintended

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɪsɪnˈtɛndɪd/

From misintend +‎ -ed.

misintended

1. simple past and past participle of misintend

mis- +‎ intended

misintended (not comparable)

1. Aimed amiss or wrongly.
   • 1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “(please specify the sonnet number or title)”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, →OCLC:

     The damsel broke his misintended dart.

   • 1992, Joseph F. Graham, Onomatopoetics: Theory of Language and Literature - Page 233:

     An action can thus be misconceived or misintended even when executed perfectly, because intentions themselves have purposes beyond the realization of an action.

• “misintend”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.