Sentence for amiss | Use amiss in a sentence

Amiss sentence example. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use amiss in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for amiss.

• But when did she judge amiss? (4)
• No invitation came amiss to her. (4)
• I could hardly have shot more amiss. (2)
• Your friend will not take it amiss I hope. (4)
• And in connection with this matter of stains, a word may not be amiss. (17)
• I think it does not look amiss; the sleeves were entirely my own thought. (4)
• Her pride prevented the world from guessing that there was anything amiss. (8)
• He did not appear in spirits: something unconnected with her was probably amiss. (4)
• He did not take my rudeness amiss, and only said that such a judgment was rash. (12)
• He hurried on to the house to dress in time for dinner, and show all that nothing was amiss. (8)
• At the close he would speak to his friend and lead him out to supper as if he had not seen or heard anything amiss. (9)
• If he cannot rely on definite values of property, his compass is amiss; he is adrift upon bitter waters without a helm. (8)
• Nothing seemed amiss on the side of the Great House family, which was generally, as Anne very well knew, the least to blame. (4)
• I would write to him myself, but have mislaid his direction; and, as I hinted above, am afraid he took something in my conduct amiss. (4)
• Stormed by an attack of his cacoethes scribendi, after those few blank days at Becket, Felix saw nothing amiss with his young daughter. (8)
• Nothing came amiss to it, everything was fuel; fibs, evasions, the serene battalions of white lies parallel on the march with dainty rogue falsehoods. (10)

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Definition of amiss:

• amiss, a-mis’, adj. in error: wrong. | adv. in a faulty manner. | n. amiss’ibility. | adjs. amiss’ible; amiss’ing, wanting, lost. (0)

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