Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To call by a wrong name.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To call by a wrong name; give an unsuitable or injurious name to.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To call by the wrong name; to give a wrong or inappropriate name to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A wrong, unsuitable, misleading, or injurious
name or designation;misnomer . - verb To call by a wrong name.
- verb To give an unsuitable or injurious name to;
name incorrectly.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb assign in incorrect name to
Etymologies
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Examples
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Whether as leaders or citizens, if we misname the fear, we only end up feeding it and fanning the flames of that fear!
Judith Barr: It Isn't Criminality. It's Fear! Judith Barr 2011
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It's also the case that political liars degrade the truth and misname lawful act ...
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I really love how 23809752386723 people felt the need to reiterate on the Star Wars misname... over.. and over.. and over..
Big Day, Big Wrecks Jen 2009
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\ "It\'s also the case that political liars degrade the truth and misname lawful acts as \" murder.
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I misspell or, more accurately, misname Nita while correcting Greg!
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It's also the case that political liars degrade the truth and misname lawful act ...
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This is what Calgacus had to say about that (85 A. D): “To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”
Propaganda 101 2009
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It's also the case that political liars degrade the truth and misname lawful acts as "murder."
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Though the company achieved b*gger all turnover and its trade with the South American States produced little or no augmentation of their revenues, - it's only 'success', if you want to misname it that, being in the FORCED MIGRATION of thousands of SLAVES across the ocean - it continued to flourish as a dazzling monetary corporation - for a time.
Look Back In Langour - Part 94 Newmania 2007
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“If you call it heartache, you will not misname it,” said
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