amiss

  • adjective not quite right; inappropriate.

  • adverb wrongly or inappropriately.

  — PHRASES not go amiss be welcome and useful. take amiss be offended by (something said).

  — ORIGIN probably from Old Norse, ‘so as to miss’.

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