misnomer

• Quite why they felt the need to switch all three characters 'names to remedy the misnomer is anyone's guess. —  Empire News
• It is said that many instruments having the name of Pique in them are the work of Lupot, and this misnomer is accounted for by the story that Pique purchased them in an unvarnished state, and varnished them with his preparation. —  The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
• When William the Conqueror came among us, and that stern rule of his began, there was scarcely a county in England and Wales in which one or more religious houses were not to be found, and during his reign of twenty-one years about thirty new monasteries of one sort or another were added to those already existing To begin with, the very word monastery is a misnomer: the word is a Greek word, and means the dwelling-place of a solitary person, living in seclusion. —  The Coming of the Friars
• First off, the biggest misnomer is the news-reader idiom. —  AZspot
• The title is something of a misnomer, as the ISSF only addresses tuna sustainability. —  Fast Company

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