amiss

  1. Adjective.  Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.
  2. Adverb.  (archaic) Mistakenly.
  3. Adverb.  (archaic) Astray.
  4. Adverb.  (archaic) Wrongly.
  5. Noun.  (obsolete) Fault; wrong; an evil act, a bad deed.

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