miswear

Etymology

From mis- + wear.

miswear means to wear badly or wrongly. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

verb

To wear badly or wrongly.“c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court the people buy in effect chaffe for corn , for that which is miswrought will miswear”