misshade

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mis- +‎ shade

Verb[edit]

misshade (third-person singular simple present misshades, present participle misshading, simple past and past participle misshaded)

  1. To shade improperly.
    • 1971, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 889:
      Two days later when he was being discharged, Adams handed Borden a termination slip stating that he was being discharged for misshading.
    • 2013, Marguerite Holloway, The Measure of Manhattan:
      Then, with his emergently famous precision, he enumerated the flaws Bridges had made when he copied the map. [] Rocks too far north and of the wrong size. Hills misplaced, misshaded. Rivers too close together.
    • 2017, Andy Kerr, Precedent for Secretary Zinke’s Gut-Job on the National Monuments:
      The secretary of the interior has misstated and/or misshaded a few facts in the paragraph just quoted.