Sentence examples for misattribute from inspiring English sources
verb
To erroneously attribute; to falsely ascribe; used especially of authorship.
It could explain why some sufferers might misattribute people's actions or feel persecuted.The research seems to confirm the guess of Dr Bleuler, who described schizophrenia sufferers as "flooded with an undifferentiated mass of incoming sensory data".
She is traveling widely to determine which manufacturers in the northern states and France shipped to Louisiana customers, and trying to debunk legends that misattribute antiques made elsewhere to New Orleans artisans.
But when asked which captions were written by men and which by women, both sexes tended to misattribute the funny ones to male authors and the unfunny ones to female writers.
The following correction was printed in the Observer's For the record column, Sunday 10 October 2010 An editing error led us to misattribute a remark in "UK film-makers are 'frittering away millions'.
The movies, she added, often misattribute the Santas to the Salvation Army, "and they have the Santas next to a kettle".
ARCHITECTURE Correction: October 30, 2005, Sunday Excerpts on Page 37 of Arts & Leisure today from a moderated conversation between the architects Richard Meier and Renzo Piano, about Mr. Piano's new addition to Mr. Meier's High Museum of Art in Atlanta, misattribute a comment.
In the same issue a misattributed photograph led us to run a picture of Gertrude Lawrence with Ivor Novello instead of Noël Coward (see article).
The head of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, for example, thinks that paper overestimated the burden of brain injuries, overstated the cost of replacing munitions and equipment, and misattributed other military expenses.
Mr Ordoveza notes the image is instead an artificially rendered simulacrum by Christoph Hormann, who is not involved in misattributing it.
The work had for decades been in collection of Norwegian industrialist Nicolai Mustad, who died in 1970, but family legend had it that the work was banished to the attic after the French ambassador to Sweden suggested it was a fake or misattributed.
*An earlier version of this post misattributed this quotation.
