Usually means: Wrong actor for the role.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. miscast: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. miscast: Merriam-Webster
  3. miscast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. miscast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. miscast: Collins English Dictionary
  6. miscast: Vocabulary.com
  7. Miscast, miscast: Wordnik
  8. miscast: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. miscast: Wiktionary
  10. miscast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. miscast: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. miscast: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Miscast, miscast: Dictionary.com
  14. miscast: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Miscast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. miscast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. miscast: Rhymezone
  18. miscast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. miscast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. miscast: FreeDictionary.org
  21. miscast: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. miscast: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. miscast: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To cast or reckon incorrectly.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To cast or direct erroneously or improperly.
verb:  To cast an actor in an inappropriate role.
verb:  To make an error when casting a vote.
noun:  An erroneous cast or reckoning.
adjective:  Erroneously cast

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