misplotting

Verb

misplot (third-person singular simple present misplots, present participle misplotting, simple past and past participle misplotted)

1. To incorrectly mark the position of.
   • I believe that M. H. Abrams, Harold Bloom, and Geoffrey Hartman, for example, all miss or misplot Wordsworth's position on the crucial intellectual axes represented by Burke and Rousseau.1984, James Chandler, Wordsworth's Second Nature: A Study of the Poetry and Politics
2. To make an error in planning a trajectory or route.
   • Mr. O'Hara, athlete that he was, misplotted his course and plunged into the well.1953, Mr. O'Hara, page 52
3. To make a mistake in forming a course of action or storyline.
   • And now and then we find a great idea, misplotted and half told.1929, Camera: A Practical Magazine for Photographers - Volume 39, page 65

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