An intentional error, usually to avoid some worse outcome, especially when done as a ruse.

(law) A trial that has been declared invalid because of an error in procedure, or because of hung jury.

(transitive) To translate incorrectly.

In a misty manner.

A female given name from English, reasonably popular in the 1970s and the 1980s. / Diminutive of Melissa

(UK, Northern England) A cowshed.

The quality of being misty.

To do at the wrong time; especially to misjudge the timing of coordinated events.

Cruel, abusive , bad, unfair, or thoughtless treatment of a person or animal (only rarely of an object or a machine; usually: mishandle).

Possible to be mistaken or misunderstood.