Meanings
present singular third person misreviews · participle present misreviewing · participle past misreviewed · past misreviewed
- To review (make a critical evaluation) from the wrong perspective.
I am probably the most misread, misreviewed, and misunderstood novelist now writing.
2014, James M. Cain, Past All Dishonor3 more examples
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.
2006, Kyle Gann, Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice, page 113June Arnold states more strongly that women writers are likely to be “misreviewed by male papers” which causes their work to quickly go out of print for “economic (political) reasons.”
2013, Kim A. Loudermilk, Fictional FeminismAdam Van Arsdale and Mary Shenk observed that many of their colleagues in biological anthropology hesitated to submit work to AA because of a fear that their work would be misreviewed by colleagues outside of their subdiscipline, who might be hostile to at least some biological, evolutionary, and scientific views.
2020, Michael Chibnik, Scholarship, Money, and Prose, page 165
Origin
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