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Discover LudwigThe word 'misfiled' is correct and commonly used in written English
Here are a few situations in which you can use it: 1. When talking about an incorrectly arranged document or file: "The report was misfiled under the wrong department and caused a delay in the project." 2. When referring to someone making a mistake in organizing files: "Please be careful not to misfile any important documents, as it can cause confusion." 3. When talking about a mistake in the organization of physical items: "I couldn't find my keys this morning because I had misfiled them in the wrong drawer last night." Example sentence: The accountant realized that some receipts had been misfiled and had to spend hours sorting through the documents to find the correct ones.
Dictionary
misfiled
verb
Past of misfile
Exact(33)
In that case, booksellers take heed: Stephen Kelman's Pigeon English is currently misfiled under General Fiction!
Mr McIlmurray has suggested that the documents were originally misfiled by the UK Government, according to The Sunday Telegraph.
The menus are typed on ledgerlike cards and delivered on miniature clipboards; very efficient, but some of the ingredients sound like they've been misfiled.
At first, the staff at the library assumed that the missing items had been misfiled, but in November , 1972 the library checked the entire collection against the finding aid as best it could.
He raged when I misfiled a cataloged and numbered record or book.
Though a payment plan had been in place for the taxes owed, Mr. Moss said, a paper had been misfiled by the store's lawyer.
Similar(5)
Marclay wanted the book to look enough like a real manga that a clerk would misfile it and "put it in the comic section, not the art section".
My losses are compounded by the activities of my 2 ½-year-old son, who, like a malicious librarian, routinely misfiles things around the house.
If our pals color too far outside the lines we've drawn for them, it can feel threatening — and sometimes we'd rather accuse them of phoniness than acknowledge our own misfiling.
The band looked as if it had been put together by accident after a misfiling incident at a talent agency.
Mr. Hevesi explained yesterday that he had the authority to reject contracts only on technical grounds, like misfiling paperwork.
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