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What does misattributed mean?

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  1. simple past tense and past participle of misattribute
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Famous people tend to get notable sayings retrospectively misattributed to them.
In January, this newspaper reported that they failed to double-check their evidence prior to publication and misattributed other evidence to them.
There's a long, vaguely dishonorable list of pop hits that have been commonly misattributed.
Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this article misattributed the viewpoint in the final paragraph.
This poem has outshone all the other works of the poet to whom it was misattributed.
Thanks to reader GDV, who pointed out the misattributed quote, and also to thread hound Mork, who noticed the same thing and laid out the facts.

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