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Example sentences for "miscalled"

Lexicographically close words:
miscalculated; miscalculation; miscalculations; miscall; miscalle; miscarriage; miscarriages; miscarried; miscarry; miscebitur
  1. And as for Bulwer, his ink was hardly dry when Tennyson began those charming and miscalled Idylls of the King.

  2. Doubtless quarrels and faults of omission and commission occurred among the monks, especially during their residence together in Vassa (miscalled the Buddhist Lent).

  3. A desperate gamester miscalled a Statesman, has chosen to invoke ignorant foreign opinion against the instructed opinion of his own countrymen.

  4. Fancying your remarks too free, Dubbed you, in polemic rage, "Sciolist miscalled a sage.

  5. According to Sir Stamford Raffles, the Rimau-dahan or clouded panther (miscalled tiger) Felis macrocelis, has the same habit.

  6. This pretty little creature, miscalled "ravine-deer," is familiar to most shikaris.

  7. I cannot emphasise too strongly that in this miscalled push shot, which is answerable for all back-spin, the loft must be allowed to do its work in the ordinary manner, otherwise the stroke will be a failure.

  8. The temple of Castor and Pollux in the Forum (long miscalled the temple of Jupiter Stator), is a typical example of Roman architectural decoration, in which richness was preferred to the subtler refinements of design (see Fig.

  9. The queen's outrageous zeal in the cause of despotism, miscalled legitimacy, is supposed to have softened his aversion to a representative assembly and a constitutional form of government.

  10. His longer poems (miscalled epical) have no more intimate bond of union than their more or less immediate relation to his own personality.

  11. Each of these well-known principles has, partly from necessity and partly from want of skill, been violated by the constructors of the spurious federation which is to be miscalled the United Kingdom.

  12. For instance, they drag in the miscalled "Opium War" and ring the changes upon it.

  13. Ye are so vast, so great, and yet so still, That but a speck I seem in nature's plan; Or but a drop without a way or will In this mad rush miscalled the race of man.

  14. The boards warped and shrunk so that the edges turned up, making wide cracks in the floor through which many small articles dropped down into a large hole in the ground miscalled a cellar.

  15. So far from requiring the impotent aid of the miscalled Bank of the United States to effect a resumption, that institution will be unable to prevent a resumption.

  16. The reference was plain to the miscalled Bank of the United States as the source of this danger.

  17. I say not that Richard is a thief, but I say that Robin is a hero: and for honour, did ever yet man, miscalled thief, win greater honour than Robin?

  18. The huge ice wall in the distance is the west branch of the Nisqually, and is sometimes miscalled "Stevens Glacier.

  19. Nevertheless they are not wild scillas, however commonly they may be miscalled so.

  20. This animal, often miscalled kylin, is the habitual defender of Buddhist altars and temples, hence its name, the Dog of Buddha or the Dog of Fô.

  21. The hare, often miscalled a rabbit, occurs on porcelain, both as a decoration and as a mark.

  22. From the old symbolism of the forgotten artists of past days, we come to the miscalled “Pre-Raphaelite” naturalism of modern architects.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "miscalled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.