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misattributed

misattributed is the simple past and past participle of misattribute.

Meaning of misattribute

Verb

misattribute (third-person singular simple present misattributes, present participle misattributing, simple past and past participle misattributed)

  1. To erroneously attribute; to falsely ascribe; used especially of authorship.
    • “It looks like this is either an A.I. hallucination or a misattributed quote,” Ms. [Meredith] Broussard said.2026 May 19, Benjamin Mullin, quoting Meredith Broussard, “Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    misascribe

Questions about misattributed

What is misattributed the simple past and past participle of?
Misattributed is the simple past and past participle of misattribute.

Words near misattributed in the dictionary

  1. misattend
  2. misattended
  3. misattending
  4. misattends
  5. misattribute
  6. misattributed
  7. misattributes
  8. misattributing
  9. misattribution
  10. misattributions
  11. misattune

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misattributed (page history and authors); misattribute (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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