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wrongly identified
adjective as in mistaken
Strongest matches
- confounded
- confused
- deceived
- deluded
- duped
- fooled
- misguided
- misinformed
- misinterpreting
- misjudging
- misled
- tricked
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Example Sentences
Seconds after Max and Mason left Mason's house at about 23:00 GMT, they were wrongly identified by the group as being responsible for bricks being thrown at a house in Hartcliffe earlier that evening.
Prosecutor Ray Tully QC told the jury of nine men and three women how the pair had been wrongly identified as being responsible for a separate attack on a home in Hartcliffe earlier that evening.
Israeli troops mistakenly killed three hostages while fighting in the Gaza Strip, Israeli military officials said, with the prisoners being wrongly identified as potential threats after they apparently escaped from their Hamas captors.
Dr Benneyworth cited the example of a patient who was found unresponsive and then wrongly identified by healthcare staff as not wishing to be resuscitated.
Jamie Turner, 34, of Northampton, was wrongly identified as one of a group of men shouting at pro-Palestinian protesters at Waterloo Station, London.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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