mislabel

[mis-ley-buh l]

verb (used with object), mis·la·beled, mis·la·bel·ing or (especially British) mis·la·belled, mis·la·bel·ling.

to label wrongly, incorrectly, or misleadingly: to mislabel a bottle of medicine.

Origin of mislabel

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Really, Geneva has little to show directly connected with Rousseau beyond the mislabelled place of his birth.
The Spell of Switzerland
Nathan Haskell Dole

1865, from mis- (1) + label (v.). Related: Mislabeled; mislabeling.