attribute mistakenly

Examples (10)

• The famous quote is often mistakenly attributed to Winston Churchill.
• He mistakenly attributed the team's failure to a single player's mistake.
• For decades, the painting was mistakenly attributed to a more famous artist.
• Many people mistakenly attribute his quietness to a lack of interest.
• The reporter later apologized for having mistakenly attributed the anonymous source's comments to the CEO.
• It is a common academic error to mistakenly attribute modern values to historical figures.
• She realized she had mistakenly attributed malicious intent to what was just a simple oversight.
• The system's glitch was mistakenly attributed to hardware failure when it was a software bug.
• Historians now know that the victory was mistakenly attributed to the wrong general.
• One should be careful not to mistakenly attribute the symptoms of one illness to another.