mis·cite

[mis-sahyt]
verb (used with object), verb (used without object), mis·cit·ed, mis·cit·ing.
to misquote.

Origin:
1585–95; mis-1 + cite

mis·ci·ta·tion, noun
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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It is even more inappropriate to miscite the underlying sources.
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