Misresearch

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make errors while researching (a subject).

    "The fact that Smith has misresearched some details about Mangal Pande, as some critics have recurrently complained, only adds, if unwittingly, to the improbable nature of Samad's reveries, and reveals the motives behind them."

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"The fact that Smith has misresearched some details about Mangal Pande, as some critics have recurrently complained, only adds, if unwittingly, to the improbable nature of Samad's reveries, and reveals the motives behind them."

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From mis- + research.

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