verb
- past tense of mislabor; to labor or work incorrectly, inefficiently, or toward a wrong goal
Usage: archaic or literary; rarely used in modern English
Examples
- He mislabored for years on a project that was fundamentally flawed.
- The team mislabored under a misguided strategy until the new manager arrived.
- She realized she had mislabored on the wrong problem all along.
- They mislabored in obscurity, their efforts ultimately forgotten.