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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mislabel.

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Examples

  • We planted cherry tomatoes (by accident, the plants we bought were mislabelled, we wanted beefsteak and a medium orange … doh) and now I am so happy we did!

    » Tomatoes Really are Fruit Strocel.com 2009

  • Future historians sifting through the cinematic detritus of the last 100 years might find themselves wondering whether some dozy assistant had mislabelled the reels for the early 21st century.

    The Artist and the rise of retrovision 2012

  • Just an observation: The axes are not mislabelled?

    Deadlines! 2009

  • • It wasn't our reviewer's remarkable prescience but a mislabelled preview DVD that led us to run a review of Neighbourhood Watched a week before it is due to be shown on television Last night's TV, 2 March, page 25, G2.

    Corrections and clarifications 2011

  • The least satisfactory thing about the book is that the six maps at the end are horrendously mislabelled; only one is published with the correct caption.

    Richard Holme nwhyte 2008

  • I ordered the Disappointing Soup they mislabelled in 'chicken noodle' - it wasn't.

    God Loves Ugly Jay 2009

  • Perhaps this one was, but it seems rather mislabelled and very much like the last one.

    Filmstalker: Spread Red Band trailer 2009

  • I ordered the Disappointing Soup they mislabelled in 'chicken noodle' - it wasn't.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jay 2009

  • Q: What about rating agencies who mislabelled bad credit risks?

    Diane Francis: Wall Street Treasury Complex is the Problem 2009

  • Every time we eat grocery or restaurant food containing "hydrolyzed plant protein" (mislabelled MSG), or drinks sweetened with artificial sweeteners derived from pesticides, we are making ourselves prone to neurologic deterioration, blindness and other ills.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Federal Ban on Organic Farms/Gardens 2009

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