misnaming

Examples

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• Another contradiction is the deliberate misnaming of images by Poitras and Magor as if they were testing the viewer's knowledge of Curtis's photographs and titles.

  Academic text (2004)

• This document attempts to correct the misnaming of the country, an error committed primarily by Europeans.

  Academic text (2007)

• This joining of violence and coercive misnaming is itself a signature of the Punch show and returns throughout the play.

  Academic text (1995)

• So it's happening in the Galaxy, but the Galaxy, as it turns out, is a little bit misnamed because it's really a solar system.

• It is the nature of the object of desire to be misnamed precisely because it has no one name.

• You know, he's been misnaming people, but I don't like the argument that, well, at least under Biden, America is safer.

• You know, he's been misnaming people, but I don't like the argument that, well, at least under Biden, America is safer.

• This may be a game she plays to tease the viewer, or she may assume the viewers do not know the proper tribal identification, and this misnaming indicates a trick she is playing on the unaware or unobservant viewer.

  Academic text (2004)

• I understand Brewers fans being miffed that the name of their hometown was off the jersey for a few years (heck, due to the misnaming of my team, there's never been an MLB jersey with "Denver" on it), but the town name simply doesn't belong on a home set.

  Blog text (26)

• Her frequent misnaming of the artist's work showed her lack of familiarity with contemporary art.

Synonyms

M

misidentification

vsmisnaming

3 6.7

A mistake when someone identifies the wrong person or object

is specifically using an incorrect or inappropriate name

How Correct

naming

15 2.1

misnaming

6.0

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Etymology