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
Falsepeace insisted that he was wrongly named in the indictment.
From Bunyan by Froude, James Anthony
