misquotation
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Origin of misquotation
Example Sentences
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The fact-check flagged a misquotation that should have been rendered as a paraphrase.
From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2022
The misquotation came from an opinion essay in The Wall Street Journal that has since been corrected.
From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2019
O’Brien’s conversation often turns to literary quotation—and, at times, to lively misquotation.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 7, 2019
By breaking the rule, Scalia had brought the misquotation on himself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 8, 2016
It was, for one thing, Mary's habit of misquotation that got upon Ledgar's nerves.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 27, 1917 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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