attribute erroneously

Examples (10)

• The famous quote, 'Let them eat cake,' is often erroneously attributed to Marie Antoinette.
• For many years, the painting was erroneously attributed to a more famous artist to increase its value.
• He had erroneously attributed the project's failure to a lack of funding, ignoring the poor management.
• The discovery was initially erroneously attributed to the wrong scientist in the preliminary report.
• Some people erroneously attribute his shyness to arrogance.
• The patient's symptoms were erroneously attributed to stress, delaying the correct diagnosis.
• Historians now agree that the victory was erroneously attributed solely to one general's strategy.
• The software glitch was erroneously attributed to user error by the support team.
• Certain positive traits are sometimes erroneously attributed to a product because of clever marketing.
• The article erroneously attributed the decline in sales to market saturation, but the real cause was a competitor's new product.