Call by the wrong name

Usage examples of misidentify.

The liviecaster misidentified one being, but Ecu knew him well: Solon Kenna.

Everyone remembered past embarrassments: mistaken reports of asteroids that might hit Earth, misidentified massive stars, spurious discovered planets around nearby stars.

I think that I have also neglected to mention that another woman standing next to me who Scop has misidentified as being my companion has been knocked unconscious and left in place by one stirring and lunatically energetic blow.

Communist affiliation in academia, misidentified the subcommittee and its chairman.

Likewise, we may misidentify our own mental imagery, just as we can misidentify the contents of our sensory perceptions.

He kept his eyes on her until she exited the room, so as to exclude the possibility of misidentifying her.

Bad enough that Tomkin-Sato Industries was losing accounts, pressured no doubt by retrocessive Democrats espousing pernicious isolationist economics with the feverish zeal of born-again Christians, but now the corporate headquarters here in Manhattan was literally under siege by consumers incensed by what placards on the street below misidentified as 'consorting with the enemy'.

Even that article again flogged Lott's toast - and misidentified Thurmond as a "Republican" during his prosegregation period.