misname
verb (used with object)
to name incorrectly or wrongly; miscall.
misnaming
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present participleof misname.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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In the latter category, Jamieson included misnaming individuals and bragging about crowd sizes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024
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
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
