missummarize

English

Alternative forms

• missummarise

Etymology

From mis- +‎ summarize.

Verb

missummarize (third-person singular simple present missummarizes, present participle missummarizing, simple past and past participle missummarized)

1. To summarize incorrectly; to give an inaccurate summary.
   • 1984, Michael J. Colacurcio, The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne's Early Tales, page 603:

     But he missummarizes the historical events themselves, imagines the entire tale as a tour de force in the amalgamation of historical materials, and concludes that this "Paradise Lost in provincial miniature" has been arranged to tell us that "neither a whipping post nor a maypole can stand for the best in life".

   • 1999, Celeste Michelle Condit, The Meanings of the Gene: Public Debates about Human Heredity, page 294:

     In my judgment Conrad and Weinberg missummarize media discourse about genetics as much as they accuse the press of doing , and in ways similar to the press ( though with reversed valence ), with regard to the summarizing of scientific discourse.

   • 2021, David John Farmer, Post-Traditional Public Administration Theory, page 95:

     To. missummarize it as a slogan, I would describe feminine writing, like somatic writing, as writing from within my guts, from within my lived experience.

See also

• misreport
• misrepresent
• misstate