misreview

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ review.

Verb

misreview (third-person singular simple present misreviews, present participle misreviewing, simple past and past participle misreviewed)

To review (make a critical evaluation) from the wrong perspective.
- 2006, Kyle Gann, Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice, page 113:
  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.
- 2013, Kim A. Loudermilk, Fictional Feminism:
  June 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.”
- 2014, James M. Cain, Past All Dishonor:
  I am probably the most misread, misreviewed, and misunderstood novelist now writing.
- 2020, Michael Chibnik, Scholarship, Money, and Prose, page 165:
  Adam 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.