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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mislabel.

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Examples

  • This article mislabels Dede as a "moderate Republican."

    Scozzafava takes on Palin 2009

  • Tiger Woods has been labeled a lot of things recently, including a "creepy sick dude" by ESPN Nation, which really mislabels the issue in my opinion.

    Jeff Witzeman: Addiction: Why We Bark Up The Wrong Tree 2010

  • Barack Obama is dead wrong to propose raising taxes or sending more troops to Afghanistan, an ignoble conflict he mislabels ` the good war. '

    Eric Margolis: Why I'm a Rogue Republican 2008

  • The "whatever you voted for, you did not vote for failure," statement certainly is in the English language, but it is emblematic of W's misuse of words to convey indecipherable sound-bytes, which he which he mislabels as policies.

    W has failed the Democracies of both the US and Middle East. 2007

  • But now, when a Black man administers discipline in the form of corporal punishment to his bad assed son instead of letting his son grow up without discipline and turn into a societal derelict only to be whipped by the cops or people in jail who don't love him the white community mislabels that loving father a "child beater".

    GOP Endorses Bortz, Disses Malone Nathaniel Livingston 2007

  • I would doubt that there is much mislabeling of scientists as Darwinists, but the seeming carte blanche use of the term "creationist" to anyone friendly to ID certainly mislabels many of them.

    Darwinism, What's the Appeal? 2005

  • It is the "Oom Shmoom" syndrome - the Israeli mindset that says "The whole world curses and mislabels us for anything we do or don't do, so we might as well go on doing what we're doing."

    and the republican hopefuls? Ellen Beth Gill 2007

  • The rapid decisions, forced on him by disaster, that everyone mislabels "instinctual" have created a framework that in this case is solid, not a phantom.

    Close Up: The Mind of George W. Bush 2003

  • The rapid decisions, forced on him by disaster, that everyone mislabels "instinctual" have created a framework that in this case is solid, not a phantom.

    Close Up: The Mind of George W. Bush 2003

  • Low tar, light and mild monikers are actually mislabels.

    CNN Transcript Aug 8, 2005 2005

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