misknotted

English

Verb

misknotted

1. simple past and past participle of misknot

Adjective

misknotted (comparative more misknotted, superlative most misknotted)

1. Incorrectly knotted.
   • 1991 December, Larry Sheehan, “Dartmouth's Carnival”, in Snow Country, volume 4, number 8, page 138:

     Women with corsages were few, and the only guy to show up in a tux was a returning alumnus with a misknotted bowtie that dangled from his neck like a damp golf glove.

   • 2000, Dann Landers, Drifter, page 14:

     Here I was suddenly a man of means and this little snot-nosed kid in a short-sleeved white shirt with ketchup on the pocket and misknotted tie was ordering me about.

   • 2007, Roger Boylan, The Great Pint-Pulling Olympiad: A Mostly Irish Farce, page 9:

     As usual, Mick noted irritably, he was wearing a shirt with cross-hatching and a shitebrown tie misknotted entirely and only coming down to the middle of his chest.