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third-person singular simple present mispegs, present participle mispegging, simple past and past participle mispegged
To incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to. quotations examples
This imitation Dahomey trifle mispegged at two hundred francs at its debut, falls to forty, hovers at fifty and ends up in the hands of a souvenir bug.
1952, John Crowe Ransom, The Kenyon Review - Volume 14, page 143
Those bureaucrats tended to mispeg Belanger as a flaming radical with a penchant for spitting into a headwind .
1990, Hank Nuwer, Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing, page 40
In addition, the activism by youth of various colors is mispegged under a single ethnic label, Latino.
2000, Z Magazine - Volume 13, page 61