misreader
- a word derived from misread.
Example Sentences
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The weak misreader is the poet who gives in to that anxiety of influence.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 16, 2019
So was Bloom a weak misreader of Eliot and the New Criticism, or a strong one?
From The New Yorker • Oct. 16, 2019
The New Testament had said nothing directly upon the question of slavery; nay, by the misreader it was rather supposed indirectly to countenance that institution.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas
