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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