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In the wrong role
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miscast
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Word definitions for miscast in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bale is excellent, and it is odd to think how close Leonardo DiCaprio came to being monumentally miscast in the part. ▪ But the story has been twisted and the characters grossly miscast . ▪ Keitel is badly miscast as the comically ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Miscast \Mis*cast"\, v. t. To cast or reckon wrongly.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Erroneously cast n. An erroneous cast or reckoning. v 1 (context transitive intransitive English) To cast or reckon incorrectly. 2 (context transitive intransitive English) To cast or direct erroneously or improperly. 3 To cast an actor in an inappropriate ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role
Usage examples of miscast.
They were conspirators in the miscast spell that prompted Keturah to banish Kiva from her tower.
Matteo, knowing her quirky sense of honor, understood that she already felt the weight of her miscast spell.
She removed a bit of powder wrapped in a scrap of silk-a charm of the sort any prudent evoker carried as a safeguard against a miscast summoning.
Qilué's miscast teleportation spell, the resulting intrusion of the evil drow goddess into Eilistraee's stronghold—this was too new and disturbing.
Hmmph, perhaps that nose-in-the-air elf had left a timed magic behind and miscast on the timing.
It is a greater danger to mages than any miscast spell can ever hope to be.
That one was Hornfel, and he argued hard for the sake of the young human whose disarming innocence and genuine goodwill, coupled with the tale of miscast magic, moved him.
When I considered the miscasting of this tragedy, I had to despair of the theater, for Oskar, the real lead, had been cast in the role of an extra, that might just as well have been dropped.
Baedecker's father had written from Camp Pendleton to say that it had been the most colossal case of miscasting in the history of the theater.
Now he looked unlikely in his white slacks and running shoes, in his green short-sleeved shirt with a gator on the left breast out of sync in time and space, like a piece of miscasting in an amateur play.
When he wasn't breaking things, he was busily miscasting spells all over the place, and .