misresearch

Verb

misresearch (third-person singular simple present misresearches, present participle misresearching, simple past and past participle misresearched)

1. To make errors while researching (a subject).
   • The fact that Smith has misresearched some details about Mangal Pande, as some critics have recurrently complained, only adds, if unwittingly, to the improbable nature of Samad's reveries, and reveals the motives behind them.2006, Ansgar Nünning, Marion Gymnich, Roy Sommer, Literature and Memory: Theoretical Paradigms, Genres, Functions, page 297
   • In the interest of understanding and stewarding complexity and holism, I ask how educational research makes use of studying parts at the expense of the whole and how that has facilitated a trend to misframe and misresearch inequity.2015, Leigh Patel, Decolonizing Educational Research