Misreview

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To review (make a critical evaluation) from the wrong perspective.

    "Artists allergic to labels, I suspect, have mostly been burned by thoughtless or insufficient categorization: as when experimental improv people are assumed to be playing “jazz,” and get misreviewed because they are lumped into a paradigm from which they've moved away."

Example

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"Artists allergic to labels, I suspect, have mostly been burned by thoughtless or insufficient categorization: as when experimental improv people are assumed to be playing “jazz,” and get misreviewed because they are lumped into a paradigm from which they've moved away."

Etymology

From mis- + review.

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