Calling it a driveway is a bit of a misnomer, since you don't drive on it, you park on it.

Rewilding[…]is also a misnomer, for whether by getting rid of tens of thousands of sheep in Patagonia or introducing a living species as a surrogate for an extinct one – Sayaguesa cattle in place of aurochs in Croatia’s Velebit Mountains, for instance – rewilding requires more human intervention than its name suggests.

[…] plaintiff's misstyling himself as corporation in initial complaint constituted case of misnomer.

The name Chinese checkers is a misnomer since the game has nothing to do with China.

The word blackboard as applied to green or brown chalkboards is a misnomer but is not incorrect, as the broad sense of the word is idiomatic.

It's a misnomer that engineers can't write.

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