misname
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
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 Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
He saw behind it nothing save an implacable selfishness that chose to misname itself affection.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
I had hoped, from the name, or rather misname, of the conveyance, to gladden my eyes with the sight of something civilized.
From A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 by Clacy, Ellen
"Sweet tormentor, not until you cease so to misname me."
From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Heyer, Georgette
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 Waite, Arthur Edward
He misnames the qualities of persons or things, and gives bad appellations or epithets to good or indifferent qualities.
From Talkers With Illustrations by Bate, John
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 Benson, Arthur Christopher
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
The thesis is misnamed, because, as it is usually formulated, Duhem did not hold it and Quine abandoned it, but it is the fundamental conceptual underpinning of much modern history and philosophy of science.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
When Alamillo saw the clip of Vance misnaming Padilla, he immediately thought of Ricardo “Pancho” Gonzalez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
I called these men by their given name, never making the mistake of misnaming them Paul.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 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
As "NOBBS" comes first, Mr. Punch adopts it, he hopes without misnaming the illustrious veteran.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 13, 1892 by Various
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