"misimitate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "mis- + imitate",
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      "form": "misimitates",
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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "misimitating",
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        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "misimitated",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "misimitated",
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        {
          "ref": "1969, Working Papers in Linguistics - Volume 1, Parts 4-6, page 87",
          "text": "Whenever anyone for some reason is motivated to improve his speech, he imitates ( or misimitates ) what he thinks to be the community norm .",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, Journal - Issue 43, page 19",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, John F. Pile, Furniture: Modern and Postmodern, Design and Technology, page 3",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Brock Dethier, From Dylan to Donne: Bridging English and Music, page 49",
          "text": "They have all misheard and misimitated song lyrics without great trauma.",
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        "To imitate badly; to produce a defective imitation of"
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          "imitate"
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          "defective"
        ],
        [
          "imitation",
          "imitation"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "misimitate"
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  "etymology_text": "mis- + imitate",
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      "form": "misimitates",
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        {
          "ref": "1969, Working Papers in Linguistics - Volume 1, Parts 4-6, page 87",
          "text": "Whenever anyone for some reason is motivated to improve his speech, he imitates ( or misimitates ) what he thinks to be the community norm .",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, K.R. Cama Oriental Institute, Journal - Issue 43, page 19",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "They have all misheard and misimitated song lyrics without great trauma.",
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        "To imitate badly; to produce a defective imitation of"
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