Usually means: Modifier incorrectly positioned, creates ambiguity.
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  1. misplaced modifier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. misplaced modifier: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. misplaced modifier: Collins English Dictionary
  4. misplaced modifier: Vocabulary.com
  5. misplaced modifier: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. misplaced modifier: Dictionary.com
  7. Misplaced modifier: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. misplaced modifier: Rhymezone
  9. misplaced modifier: FreeDictionary.org
  10. misplaced modifier: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. misplaced modifier: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See misplaced_modifiers as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (misplaced modifier)

noun:  a word or phrase apparently modifying an unintended word because of its placement in a sentence: e.g., `when young' in `when young, circuses appeal to all of us'


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