"misplaced label" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to a label that has been put in the wrong place or attached to the wrong thing. Example: The store's inventory was a mess because most of the items had misplaced labels, causing confusion for employees and customers.
"Even if you get the right label in the right place 99 percent of the time, that leaves 100,000 misplaced labels".
Because of a production error, a map yesterday with an article about honorary Manhattan street names, like Leonard Bernstein Place, and their recognizability by the Postal Service, carried misplaced labels for north-south avenues, shifted two blocks west of their actual locations.
Correction: August 3, 2004, Tuesday Because of a production error, a map yesterday with an article about honorary Manhattan street names, like Leonard Bernstein Place, and their recognizability by the Postal Service, carried misplaced labels for north-south avenues, shifted two blocks west of their actual locations.
The rather glib adaptation of the (also perhaps misplaced) "Arab spring" label was perhaps a clue that nothing lasting or meaningful was going on.
Note to the I.R.S.: I've misplaced my folder labelled "Important money stuff".
As a child diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD – "Things I was bullied and judged for" – Carner's energy was labelled as misplaced, rather than multifaceted.
When drug information leaflets are misplaced, Professor Raynor says, the label on a particular medicine "plays a very important part in guiding people's behaviour".
People began to refer to Nichols as "Nick Danger," but the label, he feels, was misplaced.
He doesn't have to face the reality that when there is a hurricane, he will be wrongly labeled as a looter and then identified as a "refugee," a misplaced citizen.
A few months after that, I misplaced the notebook and was back to rooting for notes, phone numbers and receipts in a neatly labeled "miscellaneous" file that had grown to epic dimensions.
