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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
misname .
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Examples
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And people misnaming what is happening: "pure criminality."
Judith Barr: It Isn't Criminality. It's Fear! Judith Barr 2011
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The corporate lawyers started misnaming privileges as rights.
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The corporate lawyers started misnaming privileges as rights.
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My wife's here, and she'll be glad to meet you — dinner, she calls it, and calls me down for misnaming it, but
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The sequence's metaphors frequently round on poetry or writing generally like this: a poem is itself a scrynne for word-relics, one can "buckram" "stanzas with such long lines," and yes, "deception is part of the game" in the Aristotelian sense of metaphor as misnaming.
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The sequence's metaphors frequently round on poetry or writing generally like this: a poem is itself a scrynne for word-relics, one can "buckram" "stanzas with such long lines," and yes, "deception is part of the game" in the Aristotelian sense of metaphor as misnaming.
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I have my own theory: the LDV servers have revolted at the misnaming of the website by both those august journals as Liberal Voice.
How should we respond to the media speculation? Stephen Tall 2007
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The corporate lawyers started misnaming privileges as rights.
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The corporate lawyers started misnaming privileges as rights.
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I have my own theory: the LDV servers have revolted at the misnaming of the website by both those august journals as Liberal Voice.
Archive 2007-10-01 Stephen Tall 2007
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