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Definition of miscall in English: miscallverb mɪsˈkɔːlmɪsˈkɔl 1with object and complement Call (something) by a wrong or inappropriate name. the agency is usually miscalled MI6 by the press Example sentencesExamples - Specifically, teachers should know whether to intervene when a word is miscalled, when to intervene, and how to appropriately respond.
- We have a saying in Gaelic which is, roughly translated: If you want to be miscalled, get married; if you want to be praised, die.
- You must understand, Señora, that he comes for me not as a father but because of his… his affronted arrogance that many miscall pride!
- This was equally so in Southwest Asia, that in Eurocentric terminology was in colonial times miscalled the ‘Near East’.
- Just a reminder - expenditure on staff costs and consumables is ‘spending’, not ‘investment’, and just because Nu-Labour persists in miscalling it as spending, it doesn't mean we have to accept meekly their attempts to confuse the issue.
- While West miscalls Trebinje a Turkish rather than Bosnian town, she insightfully formulates the significance of the minarets that she saw, a significance shared by all Bosnians, whether Muslim, Christian, or Jewish.
- Sundays require solutions and once the papers are read a Protestant ethic of a related sort generally sends me back to work in petty defiance of Knox, Melville and what a reviewer recently miscalled the Scottish Taliban.
- One morning, returning asleep on his horse, he miscalls his wife ‘Felice’ - Mrs Charmond's Christian name.
- The English were among the first to revive the "Louis XIV style" as it was miscalled at first, and paid inflated prices for second-hand Rococo luxury goods that could scarcely be sold in Paris.
- Before Jacob went to sea and was miscalled Yawcob by sailormen, he dwelt in dark woods, capered up jungle trees, and swayed vaingloriously from jungle boughs.
- His first thought was that of every young man, who blithely thinks to pit the bravado he miscalls courage against every obstacle.
- Cold, light, and selfish in the last resort, he had that modicum of prudence, miscalled morality, which keeps a man from inconvenient drunkenness or punishable theft.
- 1.1dialect, archaic with object Insult (someone)
it's a shame for you to miscall her like that Example sentencesExamples - He recalls that, in the painful heat of the moment, he was ‘the first to miscall the parentage’ of the future Scotland manager.
Synonyms insult, be rude to, swear at, curse, call someone names, taunt, shout at, scold, rebuke, upbraid, reprove, castigate, inveigh against, impugn, slur, revile, smear, vilify, vituperate against, slander, libel, cast aspersions on, offend, slight, disparage, denigrate, defame
2with object Wrongly predict the result of (a future event, especially an election or a vote).
Rhymes all, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, haul, maul, miaul, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, stonewall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl Definition of miscall in US English: miscallverbmɪsˈkɔlmisˈkôl 1Call (something) by a wrong or inappropriate name. the motile bacteria have been miscalled zoospores Example sentencesExamples - The English were among the first to revive the "Louis XIV style" as it was miscalled at first, and paid inflated prices for second-hand Rococo luxury goods that could scarcely be sold in Paris.
- One morning, returning asleep on his horse, he miscalls his wife ‘Felice’ - Mrs Charmond's Christian name.
- Specifically, teachers should know whether to intervene when a word is miscalled, when to intervene, and how to appropriately respond.
- While West miscalls Trebinje a Turkish rather than Bosnian town, she insightfully formulates the significance of the minarets that she saw, a significance shared by all Bosnians, whether Muslim, Christian, or Jewish.
- We have a saying in Gaelic which is, roughly translated: If you want to be miscalled, get married; if you want to be praised, die.
- This was equally so in Southwest Asia, that in Eurocentric terminology was in colonial times miscalled the ‘Near East’.
- Just a reminder - expenditure on staff costs and consumables is ‘spending’, not ‘investment’, and just because Nu-Labour persists in miscalling it as spending, it doesn't mean we have to accept meekly their attempts to confuse the issue.
- His first thought was that of every young man, who blithely thinks to pit the bravado he miscalls courage against every obstacle.
- Before Jacob went to sea and was miscalled Yawcob by sailormen, he dwelt in dark woods, capered up jungle trees, and swayed vaingloriously from jungle boughs.
- You must understand, Señora, that he comes for me not as a father but because of his… his affronted arrogance that many miscall pride!
- Cold, light, and selfish in the last resort, he had that modicum of prudence, miscalled morality, which keeps a man from inconvenient drunkenness or punishable theft.
- Sundays require solutions and once the papers are read a Protestant ethic of a related sort generally sends me back to work in petty defiance of Knox, Melville and what a reviewer recently miscalled the Scottish Taliban.
2Wrongly predict the result of (a future event, especially an election or a vote).
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