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Example sentences for: misnomer

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The word is a hyphenated misnomer.
The metaphor in canary is senseless, though, because the word is actually a misnomer.
Contrary to the views of sentimentalists, a people long conditioned to satirical, hard-edged personal names like Stumbling Bear , who have suffered for five centuries the misnomer Indians and who once merrily referred to whites as Long Noses and Palefaces , are hardly likely to be mortified by Redskinsor devastated by Braves . Although currently considered the most glaring of all Indian team names, Redskins actually predates its New World usage by some twenty-five centuries or so.
The Intelligent Essay Assessor (an Orwellian misnomer, of course) is based on a form of artificial intelligence called LSA--latent semantic analysis, explained in detail on this website.
The other name, native well is, as a later explorer David Carnegie, author of Spinifex and Sand (1898), points out, a misnomer.