misresearch

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ research.

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).
   • 2006, Ansgar Nünning, Marion Gymnich, Roy Sommer, Literature and Memory: Theoretical Paradigms, Genres, Functions, page 297:

     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.

   • 2015, Leigh Patel, Decolonizing Educational Research:

     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.

   • 2016, Klára Bicanová, From Rhetoric to Aesthetics, page 131:

     As much as McCrea's claim brings up many thought-provoking and uncomfortable questions, my concern is that not only does he manipulate Addison's theory of wit and imagination but that his manipulations are based on misresearched claims.