Sentence examples for been misattributed to from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

"I can see Russia from my house," Fey, as Palin, said ― a comment that since has been misattributed to Palin herself.

Okay, so that one wasn't even a commencement speech -- it was an article by Mary Schmich about what she would say to college graduates -- but it feels so much like what an unforgettable commencement speech sounds like that for years it's been misattributed to Kurt Vonnegut speaking at MIT.

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.

Correction: In a previous version of this post, this quotation was misattributed to Elizabeth Hardwick.

Due to an editing error, the quote, "With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage", was misattributed to Hamlet.

That is, when a person's brain sees the fake hand being stroked and feels the same sensation, the sense of being touched is misattributed to the fake.