misquote
Use Misquote in a sentence
noun
2.
a quotation that is incorrect.
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| —vb | |
| to quote (a text, speech, etc) inaccurately | |
| misquo'tation | |
| —n | |
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Misquote
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| 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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Word Origin & History
misquote
1596; see mis- (1) + quote (v.). First recorded in Shakespeare.
"Looke how we can, or sad or merrily, Interpretation will misquote our lookes." ["I Hen. IV," v.ii.13]
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Example sentences
Athletes have been known to complain that reporters misquote them or spin their statements.
The author did not misquote the film, but paraphrased it, to make a different point.
Another common form of sloppiness is writers who misquote or incorrectly cite their sources.
They mention a position he ran on a while back and he claims it was a misquote or a mistake.
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