mispaste

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ paste

Verb

mispaste (third-person singular simple present mispastes, present participle mispasting, simple past and past participle mispasted)

1. To paste incorrectly.
   • 1951, School Arts - Volume 51, page 18:

     One of the girls said later, "I had much trouble making this picture, mispasting the scraps, putting on too much paste, etc.

   • 1987, River Styx - Issues 21-24, page 10:

     An historian should not mispaste his memories.

   • 2021, Nick Montfort, Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities, page 129:

     The result should be 170, assuming you didn't add spaces anywhere or mistype or mispaste the text.