Example sentences for: misnomer

How can you use “misnomer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 'Crypt abscess' and 'cryptitis' associated with inflammatory bowel diseases, not been evaluated in intestinal A-GVHD previously, were specifically studied to confirm the misnomer status.

  • Vell means “old,” which in this case is 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 word is a hyphenated misnomer.

  • Because of this, atom is a misnomer today.


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