Call a bad name

• Wrongly call this person strict, not quite keeping two metres apart
• Name incorrectly
• Call a jab a hook, e.g.
• Wrongly label title with the French equivalent
• Make a wrong call?

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To call by a wrong name; to miscall.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misterm \Mis*term"\, v. t. To call by a wrong name; to miscall.