Adjective: misdeedy
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more misdeedy |
| Superlative | most misdeedy |
Sample Sentences
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Within the compass of that narrow dwelling, did the active, misdeedy, and enterprising urchin, play off his exuberant sports in trick, and game, and gleesome frolic; […] [1823, The Scots Magazine, volumes 91-92, page 451:]
Adjectives inflected like misdeedy
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English misdedi, from Old English *misdǣdiġ, from Proto-West Germanic *missadādig, equivalent to misdeed + -y. Cognate with West Frisian misdiedich, Dutch misdadig, German missetätig. See: Dutch Adjectives '
misdadig'.