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You can use it when you want to describe something that has been incorrectly labeled, as in the sentence: The cheese was mislabelled as cheddar, but it was actually gouda.
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mislabelled
verb
Past of mislabel
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An American discus thrower once tested positive for the anabolic steroid, nandrolone but he was exonerated because the doctor accidentally mislabelled one of the two sample bottles.Another American, Butch Reynolds, a 400-metres runner, tested positive for a steroid after a race in Monaco in 1990, and was banned for two years.
As a result, once the good is judged fake, PayPal cannot advise its return in good conscience; if it did, it might be considered an accomplice.Ms A. writes in both e-mails sent to Ms Winchell that a violin's label (pasted inside the body) may often be disputed, but the idea of a functional violin being counterfeit is ludicrous; mislabelled, perhaps, though certainly not by her.
FWS claims the ebony sent from India was mislabelled, and that Indian law forbids the export of unfinished ebony and rosewood.
Popes who left their stamp on the office include Innocent III, who served for 18 years from 1198, and launched Christianity's fourth Crusade; and Leo XIII, who used his quarter of a century from 1878 to grapple with how the church should respond to industrialisation and trade unions.Correction: An earlier version of this chart had a mislabelled scale.
Our Free exchange chart last week ("Shocks and ores", June 8th) was mislabelled.
For example, they saw that in one of their papers Dr Potti and his colleagues had mislabelled the cell lines they used to derive their chemotherapy prediction model, describing those that were sensitive as resistant, and vice versa.
In the confusion of so many reels of film, things are mislabelled or lose their labels.
Officials said it had mislabelled ordinary pork and sold it as a pricier organic product.
[They are concerned] about the family budget, education, health care... ......Ann Lewis, a Kerry adviser, on single women being mislabelled the "Sex and the City" vote.
Several restaurants and wholesalers mislabelled inferior produce as first-rate.
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Patty makers may have looked abroad for an alternative.The mislabelled-mince saga reveals "just how convoluted" the supply chain can be, says Bryan Roberts of Kantar Retail, a consultancy.
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