Verb
To incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to.
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This imitation Dahomey trifle mispegged at two hundred francs at its debut, falls to forty, hovers at fifty and ends up in the hands of a souvenir bug.
Those bureaucrats tended to mispeg Belanger as a flaming radical with a penchant for spitting into a headwind .
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In addition, the activism by youth of various colors is mispegged under a single ethnic label, Latino.