misshade

verb

misshade

verb

Etymology From mis- + shade.

1

To shade improperly.

  • Two days later when he was being discharged, Adams handed Borden a termination slip stating that he was being discharged for misshading.1971, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 889:
  • 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.2013, Marguerite Holloway, The Measure of Manhattan:
1 more example
  • The secretary of the interior has misstated and/or misshaded a few facts in the paragraph just quoted.2017, Andy Kerr, Precedent for Secretary Zinke’s Gut-Job on the National Monuments:

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