Sentence examples for been misattributed from inspiring English sources
verb
To erroneously attribute; to falsely ascribe; used especially of authorship.
Countless anonymous antiques have been misattributed to him.
A quote had been misattributed to Pauline Clandillon-Baker that was in fact a statement made by Naomi Marek.
Ms. Wilmers recently paid a few hundred dollars for an initialed Crowninshield print, which had been misattributed to the landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church.
The collection had been misattributed, but Sidney's spiky italic handwriting was identified by the Cambridge scholar Peter Croft, who went on to become the poet's first editor.
This article was amended on 16 June 2015 to reflect a CIA response to the Senate intelligence committee, which had been misattributed as a CIA response to its inspector general.
William Baker, of Northern Illinois University, who edits the journal George Eliot George Henry Lewes Studies, told me he believed that the quotation had been misattributed to Eliot by a greeting-card company, and had subsequently been disseminated into popular culture.
A painting pictured with the article was misattributed.
Over the years many of Lievens's paintings were misattributed to Rembrandt.
Sometimes his work was misattributed to more famous artists and somehow he got lost.
Charts with the article, explaining the components of a typical electric bill, were misattributed.
Until a generation ago Vivaldi pieces in Bach's hand were misattributed by musicologists.
