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Sentence Examples I have spent thousands proving things are amiss in this county and I found myself at a crossroads with nowhere to go. A little more punch throughout would not go amiss and perhaps some erring on the side of abandon rather than correctness that may come in time. I think a propaganda feed of our point of view would not go amiss though I doubt its popularity or capability. We have high ceilings, so a few Old Masters wouldn't go amiss, and I've quite a hankering for serious sculpture. I think I'll be happy either way and a little extra vegging time wouldn't go amiss at this point. However, some editing would not be amiss, as each piece continues long after its point has been made, with too many digressions and asides. Then, when something goes amiss on Christmas Eve, he gets an opportunity to rescue Santa and save the holiday. One is taking the bambino's temperature daily, maybe even morning and night, always at exactly the same hour, although nothing seems to be amiss. My wife refuses to see anything is amiss, and doctors support her view that it is menopausal. A toxic cloud at the edge of awareness, a sensation that something is amiss? Sensing something amiss in Eliza's failure to respond, Walker reached for the closer of her hands. So if your budget stretches to it, a book or record token or gift voucher as well may not go amiss. They cannot afford to mock the bands they model themselves on but a bit of tongue-in-cheek humour doesn't go amiss either. A touch of humility before embarking on these lectures would also not come amiss. Sleazy mass-market fiction has made a mint out of fading glamour and the stories of Hollywood dreams gone amiss. It was Jim, the company's vice president and treasurer, who discovered that something was amiss. Once he bungled a somersault, but managed such a smooth entry into the next exercise that the spectators never suspected that anything was amiss. In a time of vapid politicians who only speak from pre-agreed scripts, a bit of colour, rank mischief and sharp politics cannot go amiss. First, a little sweetener never goes amiss to put some spine into your bought-and-paid-for pol. However, if something is even slightly amiss the entire batch is sealed in a steel drum and dropped by cargo helicopter into an active volcano. Show More Sentences I never thought something was amiss until today when I came across this forum and a chance stumbling on to some related websites. There is something seriously amiss among most people passing for politicians. There is something amiss in the hype, deception, and implicit greed surrounding the issue. But indeed it is only strictly speaking that something is amiss, only if the allegorical content of each personification must be taken seriously. Also, a little bit of self-pitying comfort eating probably wouldn't go amiss either, Nicole. No one knows my body as well as I do, so I had an inkling something new was amiss. I have no idea what the tale is here, but something's amiss, and I was disheartened by the result. I felt like myself yet there was something wrong, something amiss, something lacking from the scene. Her notes revealed that her liver disease had long been stable, but her deeply jaundiced condition proclaimed that something was now amiss. Perhaps there is something amiss with my sense of values, but this, to my way of thinking, is barefaced robbery. Even allowing for his inevitable bias, to figure that 17 decisions went against his team suggests something serious was amiss. Saying he would fight for the truth, he even attended a cabinet meeting chaired by the vice president as if nothing was amiss. Several more officers examined the picture and, having drawn the conclusion that something was amiss, called the police. I first noticed something was amiss by the helicopter circling over the Arakawa at about 8pm on Thursday evening. At this point the store manager, who was taking stock nearby, sensed that there was something amiss at the till and walked over. No alarm went off, and the officers patrolling the perimeter didn't notice anything amiss. Students are also being encouraged to seek help or speak out if they see something amiss on or around school grounds. But if something amiss happens in his own team's penalty area, that is usually the moment he was looking the other way. When it finished and I had a look at my recent files there was clearly something amiss, something I couldn't ignore. That's the most public concession that anything is amiss here, as Chinese media have given scant coverage to the riots. Show More Sentences Michael arrived at the Wall to find no sign that anything was wrong or amiss. Over the last couple days though I've been getting signals that something might be amiss. Whatever was amiss, and something definitely was, this was a most uncharacteristic display. The Fijian way of life is glorified as the kind of life where people look after you if anything goes amiss. Something has gone amiss with him and that, for England, has been, as it were, the crux. What goes amiss in the smoker's crusade to defend themselves is the rights of the people who don't want to be subjected to smoke. Don't take it amiss but I can not understand why line-wrapping is enabled by default. So I am sure that Keith will not take it amiss if I make a few comments about his theories. Faculties often take it amiss when critics appeal over their heads to alumni, trustees or parents. But since the state stood to benefit far more than any individual politician, no one took his ambition amiss. A clear indication of just how much further expansion costs are expected to drive this figure would not go amiss. If something amiss is detected, the camera alerts a central control. I pray you won't take it amiss if I offer you a refreshment? I noticed something was amiss when I checked my email accounts and my mail software froze for a minute or so while the hard drive on my computer whirred. Why would he have had to do so unless he detected something amiss? On the face of it, there does seem to be something amiss here. A few nifty time changes really wouldn't go amiss and the relentless search for the funky backbeat often precludes the actual resolution of a hummable tune. If it finds anything amiss it will correct it within a few seconds. I wonder if she would take it amiss if I tried to get closer to her. Nobody there takes it amiss when things suddenly harden or go soft. Show More Sentences Obviously little would need to go amiss for the financial plan to go awry. When something about the magic act goes wrong, a glib tongue and a humorous manner can do much to gloss over the slip so that people do not notice that anything is amiss. From the start of the investigation, there were signs that something was amiss. He did not suspect anything was amiss until he returned home that evening and found them gone. All of this happened in daylight, and controllers were aware that something was amiss. Brega offered no hint that anything was amiss, basically because Libyans were barred from living there. In England and France he was the square peg in the round hole, but here the holes were any sort of shape, and no sort of peg was quite amiss. His wisdom and virtue cannot always rectify that which is amiss in himself or his circumstances. Noting that there was something amiss, he had hurried down for a skilled chirurgeon, whom he brought out to us under an escort of scythesmen. It may not be amiss to notice that this fig-sue is a perfect cure for colds and coughs, if taken at bedtime. There seems to be a prevalent feeling that something is amiss at Apple. Something amiss in the arrangements had distracted the staff. A bit of sartorial sparkle also never goes amiss at Christmas, and glittery or embellished shoes are a great way to work the look without looking like Tinkerbell. After the death of Ekwefi's second child, Okonkwo had gone to a medicine man, who was also a diviner of the Afa Oracle, to enquire what was amiss. Aesop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss. In a world so frenetic we often barely have time to even acknowledge each other's existence, let alone be kind, surely a cheerful well-meant word can't go amiss? Though some filleting of the number of songs wouldn't have gone amiss, their power to get the audience on its feet, glow sticks held aloft, is irresistible. Examples from Classical Literature But it could not be amiss, he thought, to acquaint my two trustees, that I intended to assume it. It may not be amiss to stitch up the wound, to keep the tow in, and let it remain forty-eight hours. It will not be amiss for the Sinistristes to intermingle some menaces with their theories. People wondered what was amiss with me, when they found me, as they often did, in a state of refraction. But in the kangaroo figure, the burden is slightly shifted and naught is amiss. Do you think it would be amiss to re-enforce argument with a few good blows of a cudgel? Questioned again and again by his Mistress partan as to what was amiss with him, he had given her odd and evasive answers. So much white will not look amiss in this place, and withy is easily worked. He was a tuft-hunter and a toady, but he did not know that he was doing amiss in seeking to rise by tuft-hunting and toadying. Perhaps there is something amiss in the working of our system in relation to colligate ministries. A few explanatory remarks concerning the mode of detection of Precambrian rocks may not be amiss. Upon such occasions it is not amiss to know how to parley cuisine, and to be able to dissert upon the growth and flavor of wines. It is as though the jar given to the nervous system had untuned us for the entire world, and all things come amiss. Even the Orangeman of the North, if he has a cow ailing, thinks it not amiss to ask for the priests blessing. I do not see what is amiss in the life of a drover, such as I hope to be one of these days. It may, perhaps, not be amiss to observe here that when the word tiger is used it does not mean the Bengal tiger. Just one word as to the exhibitor's own conduct in the ring may not be amiss. Henry spoke to the grinder, and asked him if there was anything amiss with the stone. And shame me not for nought, I'll freely own whate'er amiss, Or blameful I have wrought. A word on their primitive method of mangling may not be amiss. Show More Sentences It may not be amiss to remark that I have never eaten a blackberry since. Something was amiss with Burleigh, said his cronies at Gate City. When they got into the hall, Jo asked Laurie if she had said something amiss. Pontellier was very fond of walking about his house examining its various appointments and details, to see that nothing was amiss. Therefore, it was well that Phoebe so often chose sad themes, and not amiss that they ceased to be so sad while she was singing them. As to Doms, nothing that is at all eatable comes amiss to them. A few observations with regard to shoeing a horse may not be amiss. Little did I know why you took a joke on your cousin so heinously amiss! It didn't look amiss, but the heat, junker, the heat spoiled all pleasure. Neither his hand nor his stethoscope could discover anything that was amiss. I've tried my best to abort this big bug, but I can't find anything amiss. This was uncivil enough, but Sir Francis did not take it amiss. He said that his attempts to pretend nothing was amiss were foiled by the stifled laughter of the verger. Amy is distinguishing herself abroad, but if anything is amiss at home, I'm your man. And because these cunning men, are like haberdashers of small wares, it is not amiss to set forth their shop. When they speak of one that cannot do amiss, they will throw in, into his other conditions, that he hath Poco di matto. It cannot be amiss to consider this phenomenon as it realty is. If he's done anything amiss, he shall confess, beg pardon, and be punished. A piece of rock-salt left there as well will never be amiss. If I thought the good lady would not take it amiss, I should call for a fat slice of fried bacon to begin with. Show More Sentences No meal-time, and no sort of victuals, ever seems to come amiss to my pig. It may not be amiss in this place concisely to remark the origin and progress of the idea, which aims at the exclusion of military establishments in time of peace. Methinks, now, it were not amiss that each of us declare what he proposes to do with the Great Carbuncle, provided he have the good hap to clutch it. Kings and queens sell their jewels when times are hard or they get turned off their thrones, and no one thinks it anything amiss, so why need you? Ah, count, he esteems you so highly, tell him that he has spoken amiss. As it was, there was little amiss beyond the wreck of the main-sail. Perhaps it is only by a kink in my nature, strong in me even in those days, that I felt in such an existence, the share of the great majority, something amiss. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of amiss? Words that rhyme with amiss What is the plural of amiss? What is the adverb for amiss? What is the adjective for amiss? What is the noun for amiss? Translations for amiss Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Amish AMIs Amis amir a minute aminotransferase Amistad amit Amit amitabha Amitabha amitosis 5-letter Words Starting With a am ami amis