misquote

misquote
Synonyms and related words:
belie, burlesque, camouflage, caricature, color, contort, disguise, distort, do amiss, dress up, embellish, embroider, exaggerate, falsify, fudge, garble, get one wrong, get wrong, gild, gloss, gloss over, mask, misapply, misapprehend, miscall, miscite, miscolor, misconceive, misconduct, misconstrue, miscount, misdeal, misdeem, misemploy, misexplain, misexplicate, misexpound, misfield, misinterpret, misjudge, mismanage, misplay, misprint, misread, misrender, misreport, misrepresent, misspell, misstate, mistake, misteach, mistranslate, misunderstand, misuse, overdraw, overstate, parody, pervert, slant, squeeze, strain, strain the sense, titivate, torture, travesty, trick out, twist, twist the words, understate, varnish, warp, whitewash, wrench

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  • misquote — (v.) 1590s; see MIS (Cf. mis ) (1) + QUOTE (Cf. 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] Related: Misquoted; misquoting. As a noun from 1855 …   Etymology dictionary

  • Misquote — Mis*quote , v. t. & i. To quote erroneously or incorrectly. Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • misquote — index distort, falsify, misrepresent, slant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • misquote — ► VERB ▪ quote inaccurately. DERIVATIVES misquotation noun …   English terms dictionary

  • misquote — [mis kwōt′] vt., vi. misquoted, misquoting to quote incorrectly misquotation n …   English World dictionary

  • misquote — UK [mɪsˈkwəʊt] / US [mɪsˈkwoʊt] verb [transitive] Word forms misquote : present tense I/you/we/they misquote he/she/it misquotes present participle misquoting past tense misquoted past participle misquoted to report wrongly what someone said or… …   English dictionary

  • misquote — misrepresent / misquote [v] lie, distort adulterate, angle, beard*, belie, build up, cloak, color, con, confuse, cover up, disguise, distort, dress, embellish, embroider, equivocate, exaggerate, falsify, garble, give snow job*, mangle, mask,… …   New thesaurus

  • misquote — misquoter, n. /mis kwoht /, v., misquoted, misquoting, n. v.t., v.i. 1. to quote incorrectly. n. 2. a quotation that is incorrect. [1590 1600; MIS 1 + QUOTE] * * * …   Universalium

  • misquote — verb a) To incorrectly recite a quote. Im so embarrassed, I misquoted Hamlet to a professor of Shakespeare . b) To incorrectly record a quote. The newspaper had to publish a correction after they misquoted the President …   Wiktionary

  • misquote — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. miscite, misrepresent; twist, garble, distort. See distortion, falsehood. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. distort, overstate, misrepresent; see exaggerate …   English dictionary for students

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