misshade

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ shade.

Verb

misshade (third-person singular simple present misshades, present participle misshading, simple past and past participle misshaded)

1. To shade improperly.
   • 1971, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 889:

     Two days later when he was being discharged, Adams handed Borden a termination slip stating that he was being discharged for misshading.

   • 2013, Marguerite Holloway, The Measure of Manhattan:

     Then, with his emergently famous precision, he enumerated the flaws Bridges had made when he copied the map. […] Rocks too far north and of the wrong size. Hills misplaced, misshaded. Rivers too close together.

   • 2017, Andy Kerr, Precedent for Secretary Zinke’s Gut-Job on the National Monuments:

     The secretary of the interior has misstated and/or misshaded a few facts in the paragraph just quoted.