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Definition of misattribute in English: misattributeverb mɪsəˈtrɪbjuːt [with object]Wrongly attribute. the professor misattributed Robert Burn's famous line to Shakespeare Example sentencesExamples - I apologize if I have misrepresented or misattributed anyone's remarks.
- There's a long, vaguely dishonorable list of pop hits that have been commonly misattributed.
- I do not believe they exist, and Maxwell must have misattributed the photographs she has in mind.
- After the first one, I realized that either there were two DJ's with the same name or the first one had been misattributed.
- The furniture made in Maine during the Federal period has long been overlooked or misattributed.
- There's been all these quotes that have been misattributed in other newspapers, and they said they were setting the record straight.
- Talking to oneself, for example, happens continually: an auditory hallucination can be proven to be a sufferer talking to themself, but misattributing the source.
- In January, this newspaper reported that they failed to double-check their evidence prior to publication and misattributed other evidence to them.
- Originally, I had misattributed those comments to Aaron.
- While this is the first example I've seen of a story getting picked up by a major online news source and being misattributed in this way, the underlying practice is quite common on hip hop news sites.
- Based on the confusing wording of credits at the close of the film, we misattributed Ruell's work to Ferro.
- It suggests that under some circumstances people can misattribute the uplifting work that their brains have done to a fictitious external source.
- It has been pointed out to me that the lyric quoted at the top of this page has been misattributed to The Doors, when in fact it is from a song written by Kurt Weill - Bertolt Brecht's song-writing alter-ego.
- Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this article misattributed the viewpoint in the final paragraph.
- Famous people (especially famous men) tend to get notable sayings retrospectively misattributed to them.
- This poem has outshone all the other works of the poet to whom it was misattributed.
- At least I hope it was he, though I'm sure Merton, who invented many wonderful jokes himself, would have been delighted if the credit for it turned out to be misattributed to him.
- However, there is also a danger of assuming that everything reminiscent of Van Gogh's style in the family collection must be by him - so works that he had acquired from friends have sometimes been misattributed.
- It's much less amusing that the quote was mangled and misattributed.
Derivatives noun Thanks to the many readers who wrote to correct my earlier misattribution of the story; I was juggling a few too many balls today. Example sentencesExamples - Our data show that this approach could be seriously misleading and could result in the misattribution of falling admission rates to an intervention because the admissions would probably decline anyway.
- They revealed a host of misunderstandings, including patients thinking doctors had information when they didn't, doctors thinking patients understood something when they didn't, and misattribution of side effects.
- But what I really want to do is show that Shakespeare had important counterparts in music, where misattributions abound.
- Van Gogh usually signed only his most important works, or sometimes those given to friends, so the vast majority are unsigned, increasing the problem of misattributions.
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