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
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
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
"Sweet tormentor, not until you cease so to misname me."
From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Georgette Heyer
"If you call it heartache, you will not misname it," said Catharine, with a sigh, and proceeded to speak in a very serious tone.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
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
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
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
Cardi B, who also wore a towering black turban, misnamed her designer Monday in an interview with Vogue.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
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
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
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
Other California Democrats rallied behind Padilla after the misnaming incident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2025
This sort of misnaming goes back at least as far as the Romans, who expanded their empire through a process they called “pacification.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
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
The second great family of the herbivorous Diprotodont Marsupials is typically represented by the creatures properly known as phalangers, which the colonists of Australia persist in misnaming opossums.
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris
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