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
The organisers of the Academy Awards "deeply regret the mistakes" that led to La La Land being wrongly named best picture.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2017
The Sparrow Hawk has been wrongly named, for it eats a thousand times as many grasshoppers as it does sparrows.
From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
