Meaning

2 senses

  1. (intransitive)To misbehave.

  2. (archaic, reflexive)With a reflexive pronoun: to cause (oneself) to behave badly.

    he misdemeaned himself

    behave badly

Origin

From mis- + demean.

From mis- + demean.

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Forms

misdemeans, misdemeaning, misdemeaned, misdemeaned
Base formmisdemean · to misdemean
3rd person singularmisdemeans
Present participlemisdemeaning
Past simplemisdemeaned
Past participlemisdemeaned

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymisdemean
he, she, itmisdemeans

Past simpleLesson

all personsmisdemeaned

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave misdemeaned
he, she, ithas misdemeaned

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill misdemean

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words
RelatedmisdemeanorC2misdemeanantmisdemeanistmisdemeanorize

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
misconstruemiscreantmisdeedmisdemeanorC2misdiagnosemisdial
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