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
“To misname me would do you no good and me no harm,” replied the Jew gravely.
From The Pirate City An Algerine Tale by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
He saw behind it nothing save an implacable selfishness that chose to misname itself affection.
From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
We may misname characters and transpose scenes, but southern manners and customs we have transcribed from nature, to which stern book we have religiously adhered.
From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
Also a nice, new building is going up next door to it on that little, secret, walled jungle that Ely Crouch used to misname his garden.
From From a Bench in Our Square by Samuel Hopkins Adams
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
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
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
Warnings contained contradictory information and sometimes misnamed districts.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2024
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
Correction: An earlier version of the story misnamed the Utah Division of Water Rights.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2022
The Big Ten , which has 14 teams, has long been misnamed and should change it to the Sweet Sixteen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2022
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
When Alamillo saw the clip of Vance misnaming Padilla, he immediately thought of Ricardo “Pancho” Gonzalez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
Other California Democrats rallied behind Padilla after the misnaming incident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2025
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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