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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
miscast
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 jealous husband.
▪ O'Donnell is hopelessly miscast, while Campbell appears to have forgotten how to generate anything approaching the energy or excitement of GoldenEye.
▪ Perhaps a bit miscast, and with a penchant for too many double-takes, Perry none the less is game.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Miscast

Miscast \Mis*cast"\, v. t. To cast or reckon wrongly.

Miscast

Miscast \Mis*cast"\, n. An erroneous cast or reckoning.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
miscast

late 14c., "to cast (a glance, an 'eye') with evil intent" see mis- (1) + cast (v.). Theatrical sense of "to place an actor in an unsuitable roll" is first recorded 1927. Related: Miscasting.

Wiktionary
miscast

  1. Erroneously cast n. An erroneous cast or reckoning. v

  2. 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 role. 4 To make an error when casting a vote.

WordNet
miscast

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 .