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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of misnomer.

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Examples

  • Have Muslim leaders behind the misnomered "Ground Zero" mosque backed down?

    "Ground Zero" Mosque To Move? 2010

  • I am delighted to remember that hardcore science has lied, misguided, misnomered and whatever else weird science does to confuse the world about the real impact humanity has had on global ecosystems.

    Mark Morford: Thank God Global Warming Is a Giant Hoax 2010

  • I am delighted to remember that hardcore science has lied, misguided, misnomered and whatever else weird science does to confuse the world about the real impact humanity has had on global ecosystems.

    Mark Morford: Thank God Global Warming Is a Giant Hoax 2010

  • Have Muslim leaders behind the misnomered "Ground Zero" mosque backed down?

    "Ground Zero" Mosque To Move? 2010

  • When Karl Marx or Heinrich Heine wrote to their parents, their letters (still extant) were in Western Yiddish (misnomered Judendeutsch in German).

    The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000

  • It is important to mention that Daniel O'Leary is just one, albeit an important one, of thousands of Irishmen that enrolled in the misnomered British Legion that defeated the Spanish at the all-important Battle of Carabobo and drove them out of Venezuela.

    General Daniel Florence O'Leary is our Irish inspiration and example of solidarity and commitment to Venezuela 2009

  • And since the Democrat Congresses of the 60s, and because there are, of course, no guarantees that the money collected for Social Security and Medicare will actually be paid for those misnomered “entitlements,” it IS included in total Federal tax receipts for purposes of calculating the deficit.

    Waldo Jaquith - Federal spending at a glance. 2006

  • Reuters – Clear Channel renews bid to ease ownership limits, October 3, 2005 seriously misnomered – Part theory, part vaporware, January 27, 2004

    Clear Channel wants more 2005

  • The seriously misnomered Progress & Freedom includes the likes of Disney, Microsoft, News corp, Sony Entertainment and Time Warner among its supporters.

    Clear Channel wants more 2005

  • But significantly, her case has received scant publicity and it ` s therefore still not widely known that someone is at last standing up to the RIAA, as the misnomered Recording Industry Association of America is best known.

    RIAA ‘fines’ students $3,750 2005

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