Definition of "miscast" []

• To cast in an unsuitable role. (verb-transitive)
• To cast (a role, play, or film) inappropriately. (verb-transitive)

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• "Henry Hathaway's 1969 "True Grit" was neither "doddery" nor "miscast" - it was perfect; and Glen Campbell's character was not "a major character" - he was there to provide a little light ballast to the tense, central relationship between Mattie and Cogburn."
• "Tebow's autobiography, audaciously written when he was merely a 23-year-old second-string quarterback most critics called a miscast running back, came out in June."
• "He contended that that statement "was not accurate" and that he had "miscast" Obama's religious beliefs as racism."