Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To call by a wrong name.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To call by a wrong name; give an unsuitable or injurious name to.
Wiktionary
- v. To name incorrectly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To call by the wrong name; to give a wrong or inappropriate name to.
WordNet 3.0
- v. assign in incorrect name to
Examples
“Whether as leaders or citizens, if we misname the fear, we only end up feeding it and fanning the flames of that fear!”
The Huffington Post: Judith Barr: It Isn't Criminality. It's Fear!
“It's also the case that political liars degrade the truth and misname lawful acts as "murder.”
“It's also the case that political liars degrade the truth and misname lawful act ...”
“\ "It\'s also the case that political liars degrade the truth and misname lawful acts as \" murder.”
“This is what Calgacus had to say about that (85 A. D): “To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.””
“Though the company achieved b*gger all turnover and its trade with the South American States produced little or no augmentation of their revenues, - it's only 'success', if you want to misname it that, being in the FORCED MIGRATION of thousands of SLAVES across the ocean - it continued to flourish as a dazzling monetary corporation - for a time.”
“I misspell or, more accurately, misname Nita while correcting Greg!”
“I really love how 23809752386723 people felt the need to reiterate on the Star Wars misname... over.. and over.. and over..”
““If you call it heartache, you will not misname it,” said”
“Whether or not this can even be done in our modern plutocracies which we misname "democracy" is something which remains to be seen.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘misname’.
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mis-
wrongly; badly; unsuitably
misname, mismanage, misapply, misanthrope, miscalculate, mistake, mistook, misstep, misdirect, misfortune, misadventure, misalign and 22 more...
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