misinspect

From mis- +‎ inspect.

misinspect (third-person singular simple present misinspects, present participle misinspecting, simple past and past participle misinspected)

1. To misinterpret or overlook something when inspecting.
   • 1902, Grain and Farm Service Centers, volume 8, page 307:

     Our Kansas hard wheat is such a distinctive type that it is not easy to misinspect or unfairly treat it, although the tendency at times is to mix some other wheat with it, and pass it off as Kansas wheat; but we have a grade that covers that class of wheat, which is kown as mixed wheat, composed of any kind of sound wheat from any locality.

   • 1967, EEE - Volume 15, Issues 1-12:

     He can use that instrument every day and miscalibrate and misinspect a large percentage of the equipment he is supposed to certify.

   • 1988, Julie Zatz, FTCA Exeception: Claims Arising in a Foreign Country, page 20:

     The United States argued that its negligence occurred either in Japan, where the plane's plans were misinspected, or in Korea, where the military had failed to transmit the plane's distress signals to rescue personnel.

   • 2020, Stephanie Brown, Éva Tettenborn, Engaging Tradition, Making It New, page 146:

     Yet her obsession with remaining inscrutable has the curious effect of making her also unable to read others—for example, she misses entirely the subversive humor of the black garage mechanic, Jimmy, with whom she deals every day, uncertain whether he is "shy or dimwitted" (19). Similarly, she misreads her one black colleague, Pompey, whom she wrongly believes has sabotaged the elevator she is accused of having misinspected.