Misnaming

Word MISNAMING
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Definitions and meanings of "Misnaming"

What do we mean by misnaming?

To call by a wrong name.

To give an unsuitable or injurious name to; name incorrectly.

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The word "misnaming" in example sentences

My wife's here, and she'll be glad to meet you — dinner, she calls it, and calls me down for misnaming it, but ❋ Unknown (2010)

The corporate lawyers started misnaming privileges as rights. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And people misnaming what is happening: "pure criminality." ❋ Judith Barr (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have my own theory: the LDV servers have revolted at the misnaming of the website by both those august journals as Liberal Voice. ❋ Stephen Tall (2007)

The above intentional misnaming and twisting the meaning of words is merely another example of how insidiously, but simply, commercial media can go about reflecting the collusion between party leaderships following the corporate conglomerate wishes of our not-so-red-blooded-community-values-upholding powerful elite? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Art, in fact, is divided as to whether this whole "sacred" thing Religion has going isn't, perhaps, Religion recognising the supreme importance of Art itself, simply misnaming it, misunderstanding it. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

As explained in the Film, many Israelis and lovers of Zion have accepted this misnaming and misidentification. ❋ Lionheart (2001)

I want to just take a minute to say that even though we call it "Most Favored Nation" treatment, that's really misnaming it. ❋ ITY National Archives (1997)

Few things are more vexing than someone misnaming or misspelling one's name. ❋ Perry, Roland (1995)

I know only the parts of what I feel; I may be misnaming the whole. ❋ Bull, Emma, 1954- (1987)

Incidentally, Mr. Vidal, perhaps simply following Dr. Reuben or perhaps just yielding to Victorian theological misnaming, has attributed to Onan the invention of a certain "solitary pleasure" (or, as the Victorians and my own high-school teachers preferred to call it, "solitary vice"). ❋ Forsythe, Gideon (1970)

The two girls were introduced simply as Jane Estapoole and Lily Bordreau, and it didn't take Malone very long to sort out which was which, unless there had been an appalling job of misnaming somewhere along the line. ❋ Rice, Craig, 1908-1957 (1957)

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