miscast
Americanverb (used with object)
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to assign an unsuitable role to (an actor).
Tom was miscast as Romeo.
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to allot (a role) to an unsuitable actor.
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to select unsuitable actors for (a play, motion picture, or the like).
verb
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to cast badly
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(often passive)
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to cast (a role or the roles) in (a play, film, etc) inappropriately
Falstaff was certainly miscast
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to assign an inappropriate role to
he was miscast as Othello
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Etymology
Origin of miscast
1925–30; mis- 1 + cast (in sense “to select or assign actors”)
Example Sentences
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The problem is that the issue has been miscast.
Everyone agreed he was miscast as a history major.
From Los Angeles Times
He starred in a middling revival of the musical “Promises, Promises,” and won a Tony for playing Oscar Levant in “Good Night, Oscar”—despite being flagrantly miscast, in my view.
The Dodgers lost, the last domino in a cascade triggered by a front office that miscast its humans as widgets in a search for even the tiniest of edges.
From Los Angeles Times
Dialogue tip: When your romantic twosome is this miscast, don’t underline the issue by having one of them say, “Make me believe it.”
From Los Angeles Times
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