misendow

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ endow

Verb

misendow (third-person singular simple present misendows, present participle misendowing, simple past and past participle misendowed)

1. (usually followed by "with") To provide or endow with something that is not a benefit.
   • 1970, Donald J. Mulvihill, Melvin Marvin Tumin, Lynn A. Curtis, Crimes of Violence, page 419:

     Given the interactive character of genes and environment, one now must ask, "Are there certain specific genetic mechanisms or processes, pathological or otherwise, that determine that certain individuals so endowed (or misendowed) will be unable to live up to social and cultural expectations of performance and capability?

   • 1982, David Simpson, Fetishism and Imagination: Dickens, Melville, Conrad, page 96:

     Nostromo's fate demonstrates that even possession of what has been figuratively misendowed with essential reality does not mitigate that desire responsible for the genesis of the fetishistic process itself.

   • 2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic: Or, The Sexual Intellectual, page 296:

     Joan, who was wearing nothing but rag-bag clothes, had a lumpy, broken nose above a brandy-glass chin, an extremely high forehead and, in spite of the fact that she was only in her early thirties or so, a radical case of fallen eyelids, which, ptychotically ugly, to use one of your big words, E², not only ruined anything like prettiness in her but made her seem older and sadly misendowed her with a perpetual scowl, the angry look of a flammulated owl.

   • 2013, William B. McClain, “Foreward”, in J. Phillips Noble, editor, Beyond the Burning Bus, page 10:

     This only served to make racial encounters more cruel and generously misendowed with a legacy of hatred and denigration endemic to the culture.

Anagrams

• Wodenism, misowned, windsome