amiss

suomi-englanti sanakirja

amiss englannista suomeksi

  1. huonosti

  2. pielessä, väärin

  3. pielessä oleva

  1. väärin, pielessä, vinossa

  2. Substantiivi

amiss englanniksi

  1. Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper or otherwise incorrect.

  2. ''He suspected something was amiss.''

    ''Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff.''

  3. {{quote-text|en|year=1722|author=William Wollaston|title=The Religion of Nature Delineated

  4. {{quote-text|en|year=1836|author=Charles Joseph La Trobe|title=The Rambler in Mexico

  5. {{quote-text|en|year=2009|author=Robert Perrucci; Carolyn Cummings Perrucci|title=America at Risk: The Crisis of Hope, Trust, and Caring

  6. Wrongly; mistakenly

  7. (RQ:Shakespeare Merchant of Venice)

  8. (quote-book)|title=An English and Turkish Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CydMAAAAYAAJ|page=xxvi|passage=We shall not do amiss to notice, also, that in ordinary conversation, a few words are used as Turkish singulars, which are, in reality, Arabic plurals; but this is not correct in writing.

  9. 1899, ''The Laxdaela Saga'' (translated by Muriel A. C. Press) Chapter 44

  10. Then Hrefna said she would coif herself with it, and Thurid said she had better, and Hrefna did so. When Kalf saw that he gave her to understand that she had done amiss; and bade her take it off at her swiftest. "For that is the one thing that we, Kjartan and I, do not own in common."
  11. Astray.

  12. Imperfectly.

  13. Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.

  14. (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene).

  15. {{quote-text|en|year=1635|author=John Donne|title=His parting from her