Sentence examples for was misattributed from inspiring English sources
verb
To erroneously attribute; to falsely ascribe; used especially of authorship.
A painting pictured with the article was misattributed.
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.
In one case, it said, weight loss resulting from the amputation of a patient's leg was misattributed.
Due to an editing error, the quote, "With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage", was misattributed to Hamlet.
The novel "Arabesques" was misattributed; it was written not by Habibi but by Anton Shammas, also an Israeli Arab, in Hebrew, not Arabic.
Countless anonymous antiques have been misattributed to him.
Over the years many of Lievens's paintings were misattributed to Rembrandt.
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.
The survival of the quotation helps insure the survival of the person to whom it is misattributed.
