Definition of "misattributed" [misattributed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of misattribute. (verb)

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• "Comments released to a parliamentary committee this week about Afghanistan's Khandahar prison that the facility seemed "to be in reasonably good condition" and that inmates got "enough food" were misattributed to Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin."
• "There's a huge difference between anonymous/pseudonymous speech and misattributed speech; this is only made more complex if one considers the researchers to be merely "ratifying" the anonymous/pseudonymous speech."
• "This column has been error-free for days, maybe even weeks—knock on wood—but I continue to reel I reel easily from a piece I wrote on Nov. 1 about the Statue of Liberty in which I misattributed to Emma Goldman the famous quote at the monument, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.""