Mispromote

You can weep tears because of an up-to-date vision which misunderstands, mispromotes and bends the truth so as to preserve the eternal powerlessness of Margaret Fuller.

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As black women's works are rejected or mispromoted, " [t] he public ... is allowed to think that black women are generally incapable of literary creation" (Stetson 89) .

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When companies misuse or mispromote TCM herbs, results can be disastrous.

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Yellow Submarine was a commercial flop in Britain, mainly because it was mispromoted as a children's film.

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