had misquoted
- past perfect of misquote.
Example Sentences
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His claim was debunked by several fact-checkers who said he had misquoted the former prime minister.
From BBC ● May 7, 2024
Critics howled that Haberman had misquoted the lyrics to “Thunder Road.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2021
Cotton alluded to a 2013 incident in which Durbin had misquoted a Republican House leader’s comment at an Obama White House meeting.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
Afterward, the woman involved in the bulldog episode and three other agency employees named as witnesses to Plotkin’s allegedly insensitive comments said the internal report had misquoted or misconstrued their accounts.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 19, 2017
The placeman had misquoted Terence, and the alderman had corrected him; whereupon the ready placeman thanked the worthy alderman for teaching him Latin, and volunteered in exchange to teach the alderman English.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine
