misname
verb (used with object)
to name incorrectly or wrongly; miscall.
had misnamed
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past perfectof misname.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Some charged that Douglas had misnamed the right he plucked from the penumbral ether: Perhaps, they said, he should have spoken of the “dignity of the individual” or “the right to be left alone.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2018
Trevors had misnamed him a fool, sweepingly mistaking youth, business inexperience and a careless way, for lack of brains.
From Judith of Blue Lake Ranch by Jackson Gregory
When they came to a sea of brown mud waves, which some cynic had misnamed the "Grass Bank," it was not Tim who volunteered to take it.
From Letters from France by C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean
"It's an ostrich, sir," I corrected him, as indeed it most distinctly was, though at my words they both indulged in loud laughter, affecting to consider that I had misnamed the creature.
From Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
