Meaning of misimitate | Babel Free

Definitions

To imitate badly; to produce a defective imitation of

Examples

“Whenever anyone for some reason⟳ is motivated to improve⟳ his speech, he imitates ( or misimitates ) what he thinks to be the community norm .”

“The SK wants his Yatì (vs. the Kavi's weak one!); but the Kavi preserves that and the final rhythm, managing the proper names with a variation of 2b (q.v.), which latter the SK partly misimitates.”

“Just as historic styles are distorted, cheapened and misimitated for commercial production, modern designs can be “knocked-off" through imitation that almost always misses the point⟳ of the original, copies its least significant aspects, and introduces modifications that distort its real values.”

“They have⟳ all misheard and misimitated song lyrics without great trauma.”

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