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  • verb To categorize incorrectly.

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Examples

  • It doesn ' t try to understand terrorists as victims of their socio-economic circumstances, doesn ' t miscategorize them as poor or uneducated they are often middle class or driven allegedly to despair by the very same people they murdered.

    Never Again? Leon de Winter 2010

  • Also, I think you miscategorize Nietzsche because you are conflating two categories into one, and two dimensions into one.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

  • Also, I think you miscategorize Nietzsche because you are conflating two categories into one, and two dimensions into one.

    Activism and Exceptionalism 2006

  • Also, I think you miscategorize Nietzsche because you are conflating two categories into one, and two dimensions into one.

    Bad Dog: Morals, Pavlov, and Two Lists 2006

  • It was Maryann Burk Carver who won the bread in those early years while Ray drank, fished, went to school and began writing the stories that a generation of critics and teachers would miscategorize as "minimalism" or "dirty realism."

    NYT > Home Page By STEPHEN KING 2009

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