misdesign

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ design.

Verb

misdesign (third-person singular simple present misdesigns, present participle misdesigning, simple past and past participle misdesigned)

1. (transitive) To design badly or incorrectly.
   • 2009, Steven Rosefielde, Red Holocaust, page 240:

     It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.

Noun

misdesign (uncountable)

1. Bad or wrong design.

Anagrams

• missigned