misname
noun/ˈmɪsneɪm/
Etymology
Definitions
A wrong, unsuitable, misleading, or injurious name or designation
A wrong, unsuitable, misleading, or injurious name or designation; misnomer.
- Like the name Macon Dead, it is a misname imposed by someone with no concern about the consequences.
- And it was a misname, because the woman who stood before him now in all her naked glory presented a picture beauteous beyond belief—to Vagn, leastways.
To call by a wrong name.
- Misnamed (and misgendered) was Patricia Glass Schuman, of Neal-Schuman Publishers.
To give an unsuitable or injurious name to
To give an unsuitable or injurious name to; name incorrectly.
- Near-synonym: misnomer
- Elsewhere is pain in looking back on the blotted page misnamed Experience.
- The Intelligence Office proved to be as much misnamed as those institutions usually are, and varying degrees of unintelligence were shown in the candidates offered for the position of cook at Boxley Hall; […]
The neighborhood
- neighborgive a bad name
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for misname. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA