mispromote

To promote incorrectly; to advertise or advocate for something other than the intended use.

You can weep tears because of an up-to-date vision which misunderstands, mispromotes and bends the truth so as to preserve the eternal powerlessness of Margaret Fuller.

As black women's works are rejected or mispromoted, " [t] he public ... is allowed to think that black women are generally incapable of literary creation" (Stetson 89) .

To promote by mistake; to elevate to a position for which (someone) is unqualified.

But the real tragedy, it seems to me, is that these victims of hasty or uninformed promotions struggle from job to job with the stigma of failure when the real failure was not theirs, but that of those who mispromoted them.

People are C players when they are mishired, mispromoted, or misdeployed within their company.