miscalling

Pickens is losing money hand over fist because of miscalling the oil bust … now he wants the taxpayer to prop him up by buying his overpriced wind turbines.

Obama Meets With Pickens - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

I keep miscalling the Twin Towers the Two Towers, because after 9/11 they became a part of a bigger narrative than just being the stodgy, somewhat boring, seat of world trade.

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Magic vs. horror 2010

Americans and even Canadians make the same mistake in miscalling the Queen 'Queen Elizabeth'.

URGENT The "Reform of the Reform" is in motion 2009

But yet for all this, the miscalling of any of those ideas, contrary to the usual signification of the words of that language, hinders not but that we may have certain and demonstrative knowledge of their several agreements and disagreements, if we will carefully, as in mathematics, keep to the same precise ideas, and trace them in their several relations one to another, without being led away by their names.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

Though his performance on election night this year was not his worst, his occasional misunderstanding of the statistics or miscalling of results reveal someone with no great passion for psephology.

Archive 2005-06-01 2005

Though his performance on election night this year was not his worst, his occasional misunderstanding of the statistics or miscalling of results reveal someone with no great passion for psephology.

David Dimbleby’s bladder 2005

But yet for all this, the miscalling of any of those ideas, contrary to the usual signification of the words of that language, hinders not but that we may have certain and demonstrative knowledge of their several agreements and disagreements, if we will carefully, as in mathematics, keep to the same precise ideas, and trace them in their several relations one to another, without being led away by their names.

God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005

He was aware that the circle of his acquaintance had fallen into a way of miscalling him by his Christian name, as one observes to be done now and again in reference to some special young man.

Phineas Finn 2004

This led the officer to start railing at the culprit, while the crowd listened as silently and attentively as though he had been saying something worthy to be heard and heeded, rather than foully and cynically miscalling their mothers.

Through Russia 2003

The little man persists in miscalling his maracas “Morocco”.

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