wrongly named
Example Sentences
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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
Nevertheless, the statement referred to has found a place in literature as the "Creed of Athanasius," and whether rightly or wrongly named it persists as a declaration of belief professed by some Christian sects today.
From The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History by Talmage, James Edward
