miscall

VERB
  1. assign in incorrect name to
    These misnamed philanthropists
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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
  • 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.
  • So that's how they miscall hooch down in this country," ruminated The Plunderer
  • Cold, light, and selfish in the last resort, he had that modicum of prudence, miscalled morality, which keeps a man from inconvenient drunkenness or punishable theft.
  • It was the ignorance of mans reason that begat this very name, and by a careless term miscalled the Providence of GOD; for there is no liberty for causes to operate in a loose and stragling way; nor any effect whatsoever, but hath its warrant from some universal or superiour Cause. The First Part: Paras 1-35
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