"misgesture" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1621, Joseph Hall, Meditations and Vowes Divine and Morall, page 824",
          "text": "This flesh of ours is not a good feruant, vnlesse it helpe vs in the best offices: The God of Spirits doth most respect the soule of our deuotion; yet, it is both vnmannerly and irreligious, to be misgestured in our Prayers.",
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          "ref": "2008, John Clement, Creative Model Construction in Scientists and Students, page 195",
          "text": "He emphasizes as evidence the fact that people sometimes misspeak with a correct gesture, but very rarely misgesture with correct speech.",
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          "ref": "2014, Jill H. Rathus, Alec L. Miller, DBT® Skills Manual for Adolescents, page 117",
          "text": "Anyone who misspeaks or misgestures, while trying to maintain a reasonably fast pace, is out of this portion of the exercise.",
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          "ref": "2015, Ian Bogost, The Geek's Chihuahua: Living with Apple",
          "text": "Touch here? Stroke there? Stop here? Do it again? The impressive fragility of the device only reinforces this sense — to do it wrong by dropping or misgesturing might lead to unknown consequences.",
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        "To make the wrong gesture."
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      "ipa": "/mɪsˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/"
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      "ipa": "/mɪsˈd͡ʒɛstjʊə(r)/"
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          "ref": "1977, Mohammed Mughisuddin, Conflict and Cooperation in the Persian Gulf, page 52",
          "text": "From Faisal's perspective, a more dramatic “misgesture” on the part of the Americans was needed before the oil weapon would be employed.",
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          "ref": "2013, Steve Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock",
          "text": "He understood that if she was as bad as the instructors and professors on the committee claimed, then there were a hundred misturns, missteps and misgestures she would have made that she did not.",
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        "A gesture that is made in error."
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