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Sentence count:93+10Posted:2017-02-03Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: amissawryawryhaywireimperfectlywrongSimilar words: famishedsqueamishremissdismissmissionmissingmissilemisspendMeaning: [ə'mɪs]  adj. not functioning properly. adv. 1. away from the correct or expected course 2. in an improper or mistaken or unfortunate manner 3. in an imperfect or faulty way. 
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(61) Like Toulmin, Taylor believes there is something amiss in our modern disconnection from nature.
(62) The only tricky areas are, of course, anything amiss dead centre - or, of course, anything wrong with the brain.
(63) Mrs Healy saw him running as she looked from her bow window and knew that something must be amiss.
(64) A bit of patience will not go amiss in this area either: what one sows another reaps.
(65) Begging you will not take it amiss I shall ever be your dutiful servant.
(66) In this climate, a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably wouldn't go amiss.
(67) Even the hounds sensed something was amiss and became still, tails pressed between hind legs, watching.
(68) I knew something was amiss when the driver paid $ 8 for a lollipop.
(69) There is something amiss with the machine.
(70) A word of advice may not be amiss here.
(71) Nothing is amiss with him.
(72) An elegant turn of phrase would not be amiss.
(73) An elegant turn of phrase amiss.
(74) My self corrupting salving thy amiss.
(75) Now don't take this amiss.
(76) A few pleasant remarks may not be amiss.
(77) It was only after boarding the boat that we realized something was amiss and, instead of the sleek, high-powered ferry we'd arrived on,[http://sentencedict.com/amiss.html] we were standing on the lower deck of a two deck behemoth.
(78) The wide range in tariffs is the first indication that something may be amiss with the analytical model used to determine "damage."
(79) Foreword:Recently of the research result expresses, still having a the part of people thinks the fleetness to come amiss easily, putting forward the slow speed theory.
(80) If you know what their voice normally sounds like, and when they answer a tricky question their voice sounds higher than usual, something may be amiss.
(81) Hitherto he kept his word with me , and offered me nothing amiss.
(82) As Andrew counsels, perhaps a little more abstemiousness wouldn't go amiss.
(83) Don't know, the bridesmaid wants to do exactly what, so, in the mind how much order so of fear to come amiss of mental state.
(84) Don't take it amiss if I point out your errors.
(85) It'seems something is amiss.
(86) Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more.
(87) Last weekend the Timespublished a massive self-criticism detailing Blair's lies and the paper's failure over the years to follow up on numerous indications that something was amiss.
(88) Nothing has ever gone amiss since he took charge of the school.
(89) The cracks are showing in the walls and a lick of paint would not come amiss.
(90) A little of your most delicate orange scent would not be amiss.
More similar words: famishedsqueamishremissdismissmissionmissingmissilemisspendemissionadmissiondismissalpermissioncommissionadmissiblepermissiblemissionarycommissionersubmissivelyreadmissiontransmissionamidamityfamilyfaminedynamicexaminevitaminamiableIslamicceramics
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