verb
definition
To call (someone) bad names; to insult, abuse.
definition
To call (something) by the wrong name.
definition
To make a wrong call; to announce (one's hand of cards) incorrectly.
Examples of miscalled in a Sentence
There are, however, several species of euphorbia of the miscalled cacti.
Besides these excavated monuments, the Stadion; the enceinte of fortifications erected by Lysimachus, which runs from the tower called the "Prison of St Paul" and right along the crests of the Bulbul (Prion) and Panajir hills; the round monument miscalled the "Tomb of St Luke"; and the Opistholeprian gymnasium near the Magnesian gate, are worthy of attention.
The instinct reaches its highest development in the phenomenon miscalled "death feigning."
On the coast of Loch Nell, or Ardmucknish Bay, is the vitrified fort of Beregonium, not to be confounded with Rerigonium (sometimes miscalled Berigonium) on Loch Ryan in Wigtownshire - a town of the Novantae Picts, identified with Innermessan.
Of native fruits the misple (Vangueria infausta), miscalled the wild medlar, is of excellent flavour.
The choice was sometimes made early in the reign, when the heir held the title of "Chao Uparach" or "Wang Na," miscalled "Second King" in English, and sometimes was left until the death of the king was imminent.
The Sphinx was bared to the rock-level, and the famous granite and alabaster monument miscalled the "Temple of the Sphinx" was discovered.
On the 10th a silver casket containing letters and French verses, miscalled sonnets, in the handwriting of the queen, was taken from the person of a servant who had been sent by Bothwell to bring it from Edinburgh to Dunbar.
The Tibet lamb so largely imported and used for children's wear is often miscalled Tibet goat.