Definition of "misnomer" []

• An error in naming a person or place. (noun)
• Application of a wrong name. (noun)
• A name wrongly or unsuitably applied to a person or an object. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Give Bush credit for his Aids program in Africa, but his “compassionate conservatism” was a misnomer from the “get go”."
• "Fox News - aka Bush/Cheney/Limpbaugh Bastion of Lies - is a misnomer from the get-go."
• "The Dion tax “shift” and “revenue neutral” misnomer is now being exposed for every deceitful aspect."