Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Falsely believing that someone is someone else.
- n. law A defense in criminal law based on this situation, claiming that any eyewitnesses to a crime incorrectly thought that they saw the defendant.
Examples
“I merely acted to protect the record and the witness’s testimony, and was under a legal and ethical duty to make a mistaken identity argument at that point.”
“It's also unclear why Truxton the Troll is lurking beneath St. Peter's Cathedral (or computer-generated facsimile thereof), but at least it gives the producers a chance to get yet more mileage out of the good old APCA, while guaranteeing a bit of action amidst all the mistaken identity nonsense.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mistaken identity’.
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Two-word poems
The dutch poet Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) became the winner of a poetry contest in 1620 for:
U .... You
Nu! .... Now!
lips parted, disquieting beauty, kidney failure, mistaken identity, pubic lice, viscera pile, blood diamond, fetid dampness, feeble dribble, effulgent daybeams, dappled shadows, necromantic power and 294 more...
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Dear Abby
We know that Wordie dearly needs an agony column. I have generously offered to host a Dear Abby column as a means of addressing the severe lack of social services at this site.
Please ...don't want to work, spread too thin, impaled on textbooks, too many custard ..., mistaken identity, every time i eat ..., victim of a vicio..., wondering what a ..., i really am abby, i have delusions ..., wailing wall of w..., aboutyrapistesis and 13 more...
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a Doppelgänger story
words you'd find in a Doppelgänger story
mistaken identity, fetch, evil twin, delusion, nephele, dead ringer, sosia, supplant, usurp, svengali, dichotomy, dialectic and 19 more...
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Not the Clearest of Intentions
You ever try to read someone who can't be read? What is he thinking? What is he going to do? Whose side is he really on?
hidden agenda, doublespeak, backstabbing, treasonous, covert, mysterious, questionable, shady, flattering, sycophant, brownnose, secretive and 78 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mistaken identity.
reesetee Dear Abby,
Hey! You're not Dear Abby!
Sincerely,
Disgruntled Wordie
P.S. Don't worry. I'm just reposting this where it should have been in the first place. Jul 2, 2008