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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of misgrade.

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Examples

  • I have been foolish enough to purchase numerous coins over the years from a certain HSN coin collector show and the results of recent regradings were startling. 14 of 16 coins graded by the company that they were dealing with (ICG) were misgraded, which lowered the resale value by tens of thousands of dollars.

    WHEN CHEAP IS NOT CHEAP ENOUGH : Coin Collecting News 2009

  • I have been foolish enough to purchase numerous coins over the years from a certain HSN coin collector show and the results of recent regradings were startling. 14 of 16 coins graded by the company that they were dealing with ICGwere misgraded, which lowered the resale value by tens of thousands of dollars.

    WHEN CHEAP IS NOT CHEAP ENOUGH : Coin Collecting News 2009

  • So I made a big stink about it, kinda 'threw a fit and made him look through all of his records until he discovered about three things that he misgraded.

    dream-shadow Diary Entry dream-shadow 2005

  • 2005 -- Virginia -- Computerized test was misgraded and five students were awarded $5,000 scholarships.

    New test scoring problems for Pearson 2010

  • 1999-2000 -- Arizona – Twelve thousand tests were misgraded due to flawed answer key.

    New test scoring problems for Pearson 2010

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