misname
Americanverb (used with object)
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misnames,
present (3rd person singular)
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misnamed,
past participle, past
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misnaming
present participle
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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misnamesimple
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misnamessimple
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have misnamedperfect
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has misnamedperfect
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am misnamingprogressive
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are misnamingprogressive
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is misnamingprogressive
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have been misnamingperfect progressive
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has been misnamingperfect progressive
Past
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misnamedsimple
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had misnamedperfect
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was misnamingprogressive
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were misnamingprogressive
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had been misnamingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of misname
Example Sentences
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And your mother-in-law’s sensitivity does not entitle her to misname you.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
He saw behind it nothing save an implacable selfishness that chose to misname itself affection.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
I had hoped, from the name, or rather misname, of the conveyance, to gladden my eyes with the sight of something civilized.
From A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 by Ellen Clacy
Doubt, A soul-mist through whose rifts familiar stars Beholding, we misname.
From Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney
“Before Heaven,” said the man slowly, and the tremor of his voice was out of keeping with the ingrained poise of his usual self-command, “when they called you Glory, they didn’t misname you!”
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
So to repeat: Vance misnames Alex Padilla during a press conference.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
With authority and certitude, she misplaces geographical landmarks, mispronounces French words, and misnames the heroes of history.
From Time Magazine Archive
He misnames the qualities of persons or things, and gives bad appellations or epithets to good or indifferent qualities.
From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate
This my swashbuckler misnames sentimentality—and thus I feel that he always tends to admire the wrong qualities, because he condones even what he calls sentimentality in one whom he chooses to admire.
From The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson
Signor Pessina, however, had provided him with the address of a society which operated something that the doctor agrees to term Kabbalah, after the same manner that he misnames most subjects.
From Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer by Arthur Edward Waite
But longtime Mexico City denizens point out incongruities: the prevalence of palm trees, misnamed or nonexistent institutions, a court scene with a jury even though criminal jury trials do not exist here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
Warnings contained contradictory information and sometimes misnamed districts.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
There is the misnamed Norway rat — also called the brown, sewer or wharf rat — actually a native from northern China or Mongolia.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
Correction: An earlier version of the story misnamed the Utah Division of Water Rights.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2022
It seems fair to conclude that what we call “Washington’s Farewell Address” is not misnamed.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
In the latter category, Jamieson included misnaming individuals and bragging about crowd sizes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024
I called these men by their given name, never making the mistake of misnaming them Paul.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
The usage infantilizes both the reader and the book’s subject, adding to a centuries-long history of disrespectful misnaming — a history that White himself contested by entitling his autobiography “A Man Called White.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2022
I think we have a habit of misnaming political experiences in ways that help us metabolize loss.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2020
“I have such a stupid habit of misnaming people.”
From Freaks on the Fells Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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