What does misinspect mean?
Misinspect means To misinterpret or overlook something when inspecting..
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To misinterpret or overlook something when inspecting..
Our Kansas hard wheat is such a distinctive type that it is not easy to misinspect or unfairly treat it, although the tendency at times is to mix some other wheat with it, and pass it off as Kansas wheat; but we have a grade that covers that class of wheat, which is kown as mixed wheat, composed of any kind of sound wheat from any locality.
He can use that instrument every day and miscalibrate and misinspect a large percentage of the equipment he is supposed to certify.
The United States argued that its negligence occurred either in Japan, where the plane's plans were misinspected, or in Korea, where the military had failed to transmit the plane's distress signals to rescue personnel.
Yet her obsession with remaining inscrutable has the curious effect of making her also unable to read others—for example, she misses entirely the subversive humor of the black garage mechanic, Jimmy, with whom she deals every day, uncertain whether he is "shy or dimwitted" (19). Similarly, she misreads her one black colleague, Pompey, whom she wrongly believes has sabotaged the elevator she is accused of having misinspected.
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Misinspect means To misinterpret or overlook something when inspecting..
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Our Kansas hard wheat is such a distinctive type that it is not easy to misinspect or unfairly treat it, although the tendency at times is to mix some other wheat with it, and pass it off as Kansas wheat; but we have a grade that covers that class of wheat, which is kown as mixed wheat, composed of any kind of sound wheat from any locality.
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