misname
verb (used with object)
to name incorrectly or wrongly; miscall.
misnames
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present tense formof misname (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
