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
"You need not misname me," she answered coolly.
From Shrewsbury A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
I have heard of such—yea, even among those Who sit on thrones—I never saw any such, Never knew any such, and howsoever You do misname me, match'd with any such, I am snow to mud.
From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
Millish veg-veen I called him, and, though a man of small cheer, I smiled to think what a sorry misname that name would seem in our harder English tongue.
From The Deemster by Sir Hall Caine
Thus, not only our bread and our boots are made by machinery, but many of the very things we misname "art-products."
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
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
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
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
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
That is my new name for the human species, which currently has the scientific name of Homo sapiens sapiens, or wise, wise man, which makes us the most misnamed species on the planet.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2023
Second, SAF are misnamed, as there is no evidence that enough fuel can be sustainably produced in the quantities needed.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
You’d almost think it was real, Isidore observed as he headed back to the Van Ness Pet Hospital—that carefully misnamed little enterprise which barely existed in the tough, competitive field of false-animal repair.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Other California Democrats rallied behind Padilla after the misnaming incident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2025
In the latter category, Jamieson included misnaming individuals and bragging about crowd sizes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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 would like to make note of the curious misnaming of wild animals in North America.
From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson
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