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Meanings of mislaid in English

Lost temporarily; as especially put in an unaccustomed or forgotten place.

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Usage of mislaid in English
1
A number of cases have involved civil servants who mislaid sensitive information.
The Guardian
2
In the course of his long wanderings it had unfortunately been mislaid.
A College Girl
3
We pretend that Uncle Boaz has mislaid the key of the wine-cellar.
The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields
4
The MS. was not printed in his time, but mislaid or forgotten.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3
5
The former imperiousness has not just been mislaid, it has been rejected.
The Irish Times
6
Fulcher mislaid, his passport and Hurley travelled to London without his passport.
The Irish Times
7
It suggested that she customarily mislaid it, and recaptured only an echo.
The Nest Builder: A Novel
8
She mislaid him Saturday afternoon-andfor a long time suffered no inconvenience.
Howards End
9
I meant them for your Christmas last year, but they were mislaid.
The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
10
Rulers mislaid or misspent unimaginable sums, running deficits that outran her comprehension.
The witch queen
11
There's no time to hunt for mislaid hats when the whistle goes.
On the Track
12
She was dreadful careless with her husbands and had mislaid 'em all.
Flower of the Dusk
13
It's a good deal like those plans of mine that got mislaid.
Out of the Primitive
14
My electric apparatus is out of order, and I've mislaid my matches.
A Rock in the Baltic
15
When you just reported Dracula's words, you said the Voivode 'mislaid you.' Where?
Vlad. The Last Confession
16
Two circumstances in particular recalled my recollection of the mislaid manuscript.
Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 1
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