Crossword clues for miscall
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Miscall \Mis*call"\, v. t.
To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.
To call by a bad name; to abuse. [Obs.]
--Fuller.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context now dialectal English) To call (someone) bad names; to insult, abuse. 2 To call (something) by the wrong name.
WordNet
v. assign in incorrect name to; "These misnamed philanthropists" [syn: misname]
Usage examples of "miscall".
A fourth miscalls all by the name of fustian, that his grounded capacity cannot aspire to.
One was the blonde who he had seen going up and thought had been headed for safety, only Mark knew he had miscalled her intentions, for she went to fetch help.
It would be difficult to say whose lot was most lamentable, that of the active Tories, who gave up their patrimonies for a pittance from the British pension-roll, and their native land for a cold reception in their miscalled home, or the passive ones who remained behind to endure the coldness of former friends, and the public opprobrium, as despised citizens, under a government which they abhorred.
Things that have been miscalled supernatural appear to me simple,more natural than nature, than earth, than sea,or sun.
Egyptian and Assyrian, mediaeval and eighteenth-century culture, miscalled, are all alike mere dust, and absolutely useless.
If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.
Witness the caravan they had passed, bones, naked bones in the sand, and a leader who should have known his business had miscalled the storm and the proximity of safety.
Great Slave Lake and all morning flew over those plains miscalled the Barrens, which, seen from above, are a delicate lace-work of lakes and streams criss-crossed by ridges of bald rock and banks of gravel, and with now and then in a hollow a patch of forest.
Truly, it was a man of letters who said it, avenging himself on his profession for the never-ending toil it imposed, by miscalling it, with grim pleasantry, the architecture of the nursery.
But the Bedu had never misled him, nor miscalled the distances, nor failed to provide him with at least enough water to get from oasis to oasis.
Young lady, what you miscalled your 'moral instinct' was the instilling in you by your elders of the truth that survival can have stronger imperatives than that of your own personal survival.
Young lady, what you miscalled your ‘moral instinct’ was the instilling in you by your elders of the truth that survival can have stronger imperatives than that of your own personal survival.
It is a singular piece of Wisdom to apprehend truly, and without passion, the Works of GOD, and so well to distinguish His Justice from His Mercy, as not to miscall those noble Attributes: yet it is likewise an honest piece of Logick, so to dispute and argue the proceedings of GOD, as to distinguish even His judgments into mercies.
Chillip does go so far as to say,' pursued the meekest of little men, much encouraged, 'that what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
Five extra watches and a twentieth-share penalty on the next haul for the first one who miscalls him.