wrongly named
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The school district's attorney, Timothy Mullins, filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit on Tuesday, citing a plaintiff whom he alleges Fieger wrongly named in the complaint.
From Fox News ● Dec. 14, 2021
In many ways, the 1918-19 flu — which was wrongly named Spanish flu because it first received widespread news coverage in Spain — was worse.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2021
Greer cited the response to the Boston marathon bombing on Reddit, when a Find Boston Bombers subreddit wrongly named several individuals as suspects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2021
It said one of its members, former councillor Chris Flood, had been wrongly named in a report in The Times as having signed up.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2015
The voided scocheon is wrongly named in all the heraldry books as an orle, a term which belongs to a number of small charges set round a central charge.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
