miscall — Englisches Wörterbuch

Verb

1. To call (someone) bad names; to insult, abuse.

   Gebrauch

   • dialectal

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   But one aboue the rest in speciall, / That had an hog beene late, hight Grille by name, / Repined greatly, and did him miscall, / That had from hoggish forme him brought to naturall.

   He there exhorts us to hear with patience and humility those, however they be miscall'd, that desire to live purely, in such a use of Gods Ordinances, as the best guidance of their conscience gives them, and to tolerat them, though in some disconformity to our selves.

   their wisest brains concluded that Christians wore the hideous thing that its broad brim might interpose between their weak eyes and the uncongenial sight of God. So it reminded Islam continually that God was miscalled and misliked by Christians.

2. To call (someone or something) incorrectly or by the wrong title or name.

   Synonyme

   misname

   Oberbegriffe

   misidentify

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   I can believe such an instance—can believe love taking strong root amid cruelty, poverty, suffering, and danger, rather than in the withering atmosphere of this crowded city—this miscalled social, but really heartless, life; where petty interests distract the mind, and mean desires absorb the heart.

   ‘In this country, peasants miscall it “Cowslip,” though of course the true Cowslip, Primula veris, is a different plant altogether.’

3. To make a wrong call (prediction or announcement). To announce the result of an election incorrectly.

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   The networks soon discovered that they had miscalled Florida, based, so it was later explained, on important errors and miscalculations made from their combined pool source of information, the Voter News Service.

4. To make a wrong call (prediction or announcement). To announce one's hand of cards incorrectly.

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   When the loser thinks he has the hand beat he turns over his hand only to find that the winner has miscalled his hand, and since "cards speak," the miscaller wins.

Substantiv

1. An incorrect call.

   Verwandte Wörter

   misidentificationmislabelingmisnaming

Verb

1. assign in incorrect name to

   Synonyme

   misname

   Oberbegriffe

   call

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   These misnamed philanthropists