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Put the wrong handle on
Answer for the clue "Put the wrong handle on ", 7 letters:
misname
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Word definitions for misname in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A wrong, unsuitable, misleading, or injurious name or designation; misnomer. vb. 1 To call by a wrong name. 2 To give an unsuitable or injurious name to; name incorrectly.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misname \Mis*name"\, v. t. To call by the wrong name; to give a wrong or inappropriate name to.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. assign in incorrect name to; "These misnamed philanthropists" [syn: miscall ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500 "to call (someone) a bad name;" see mis- (1) + name (v.). Related: Misnamed ; misnaming .
Usage examples of misname.
When we have done evil it is because we have been worsted by our baser side--for a man is many--by desire or rage or some evil image: the misnamed reasoning that takes up with the false, in reality fancy, has not stayed for the judgement of the Reasoning-Principle: we have acted at the call of the less worthy, just as in matters of the sense-sphere we sometimes see falsely because we credit only the lower perception, that of the Couplement, without applying the tests of the Reasoning-Faculty.
But when will their misnamed liberty have its true emblem in that Stump, hewn down by British steel?
Abu Hussein, misnamed the Father of Cunning, drank from the river below his earth, and his shadow was long in the low sun.
Without the misnamed supernatural these to me seem incomplete, unfinished.
Ostrander nursed a burning anger about terrorists in general and especially the misnamed Friends of Freedom.
This, in fact, proved to be the case, for there is no bird more clever than the misnamed goose.
Sudbury, heading down a country road to the misnamed town of Lively, near where the mine was actually located.
He was a poet, a painter, a musician--possibly a soldier, or a king--possibly anything--spoiled, blighted by that misnamed good fortune which the lucky workers who had to work so naturally and stupidly envied him.
I perceived that he was misnaming the things, and inhospitably amusing himself at the expense of an innocent stranger from a far country, I held my peace, and let him have his way.
Why the end of the trail on Nueva Azteca, why the misnamed body lying in the morgue?
Sudbury, heading down a country road to the misnamed town of Lively, near where the mine was actually located.
Then there was Hamlet, Will as ghost misnaming prince as Hamnet, sick for many reasons (death of son and end of Shakespeare line.
She took three lessons in the central body of water she had misnamed a tidepool.
Broad as the misnamed craft was, it made good time, rolling along downriver.
The misnamed Killer Whale can evidently exceed 30 knots in short spurts, and Fin Whales have been seen to out- run Killers!