misname
verb (used with object)
to name incorrectly or wrongly; miscall.
have misnamed
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present perfectof misname.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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I do not believe in the utopian schemes which have been ground out of the brains of philosophers who mistake vagueness and impracticability for sublimity, and which they have misnamed association.
From My Unknown Chum by Charles Bullard Fairbanks
And yet some senator obese, In Rome long years ago, May have misnamed a masterpiece De Gallo bellico.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 by Various
Instead they are driven by fear, which they have misnamed Commonsense.
From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Grant Martin Overton
