Sekirov Dictionary

mistaste

/mɪsˈteɪst/

verb 3
/ˈmɪsteɪst/ noun 2
forms 3

verb3

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(no longer used) To taste wrongly or in error
- The support provided by custom or by the oenological guide serves only to make it understood that one has not tasted the wine or, having mistasted it, that one perceived nothing or almost nothing. — 2009
(no longer used) To take wrongly or in error; mistake; err
(no longer used) To overindulge in food or drink

mistaste

/ˈmɪsteɪst/

noun2

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A wrong, bad, or illicit taste
- Still, my palate was alive, questing for the slightest mistaste. But there was none. — 2014
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(no longer used) An error; mistake
- A mistake is really a mistaste. The most striking use of the sense of taste is in More's choice of persuasio to characterize the basic way mind is moved and guided. This is not surprising. — 1973

forms

mistasted · mistasting · mistastes

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