"mishyphenate" meaning in English

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      "form": "mishyphenating",
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          "ref": "1988, Richard Rubinstein, Digital Typography, page 187:",
          "text": "Good hyphenators strongly prefer Type II errors over Type I; they find fewer possibilities, but they rarely mishyphenate a word.",
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          "ref": "1990 January 1, “Product Comparison”, in InfoWorld, volume 12, number 1, page 51:",
          "text": "It did not mishyphenate any words, but it missed more hyphenation opportunities than any other program (20).",
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          "ref": "1995, Sipapu - Volumes 25-26, page 14:",
          "text": "The initial story, “ In the presence of greatness: the Bukowski Barfly narrative,\" describes an encounter with “Hank” at the opening of Bukowski's movie, Barfly (we have this lamentable tendency to mishyphenate the word as “Barf - ly\") .",
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        "To hyphenate a word at an inappropriate point, especially one that is not between two syllables."
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