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miscall

VERB
  1. assign in incorrect name to
    These misnamed philanthropists

How To Use miscall In A Sentence

  • And these advocates, incapacitated by miscalled seminaries for alluseful endeavor, become defenders of the faith and prosecutors of all and each and any who fix their hearts on such simple and Godlike things as friendship and equality. Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
  • They are much better than most of our sacred poetry, as it is strangely miscalled, which is frequently neither poetry nor common sense: -- Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846
  • Take heed not to go too far in his dispraise," said Gwion, but in weariness and grief rather than indignation, "for I may not hear him miscalled. His Disposition
  • Hence we never miscall the Pope but some familiar term dreamed up by journalists. Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta chairman of the SSPX commission
  • We have a saying in Gaelic which is, roughly translated: If you want to be miscalled, get married; if you want to be praised, die.
  • One morning, returning asleep on his horse, he miscalls his wife ‘Felice’ - Mrs Charmond's Christian name.
  • (How often thus we miscall our chiefest mercies -- not only thinking them distant when they are near, but thinking the best the worst!) 20. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • My second joyful memory centres round another thing of beauty -- a spiky agave (miscalled aloe) of monstrous dimensions which may be seen in the garden of a certain hill-side hotel. Alone
  • Lust has been too often miscalled love.
  • Specifically, teachers should know whether to intervene when a word is miscalled, when to intervene, and how to appropriately respond.
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