misnaming
- present participle of misname.
Example Sentences
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I called these men by their given name, never making the mistake of misnaming them Paul.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
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
It was shelved with the months of a romantic, parasitical existence misnaming jealous monopoly as love, an existence which all at once seemed as long ago as another lifetime.
From The Gorgeous Girl by Bartley, Nalbro
