misreview

Verb

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

1. To review (make a critical evaluation) from the wrong perspective.
   • 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.2006, Kyle Gann, Music Downtown: Writings from the Village Voice, page 113
   • 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.”2013, Kim A. Loudermilk, Fictional Feminism