Meaning of mispromote | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To promote incorrectly; to advertise or advocate for something other than the intended use.
2. To promote by mistake; to elevate to a position for which (someone) is unqualified.

Examples

“You can weep⟳ tears because of an up-to-date vision which misunderstands, mispromotes and bends the truth so as to preserve⟳ the eternal powerlessness of Margaret Fuller.”

“As black women's works are rejected or mispromoted, " [t] he public ... is allowed to think⟳ that black women are generally incapable of literary creation" (Stetson 89) .”

“When companies misuse or mispromote TCM herbs, results can be disastrous.”

“Yellow Submarine was a commercial flop in Britain, mainly because it was mispromoted as a children's film.”

“Boxing Helena was so misunderstood and so mispromoted. Boxing Helena was never about “This is women's fault.””

“Our own⟳ study⟳ began in 1974, after we had published a report⟳ on how prescription drugs in the United States are discovered, produced, promoted, priced, prescribed by physicians and used by patients — and how these potent products are too frequently mispromoted, mis-prescribed and misused.”

“But the real tragedy, it seems to me, is that these victims of hasty or uninformed promotions struggle⟳ from job to job with the stigma of failure when the real failure was not theirs, but that of those who mispromoted them.”

“People are C players when they are mishired, mispromoted, or misdeployed within their company.”

“Mispromoting internally is about as costly as miss-hiring ^([sic]) an external candidate.”

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