misquotation
AmericanEtymology
Origin of misquotation
Example Sentences
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It is not clear how Ziegler’s misquotation wound up in the published opinion of a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2025
The fact-check flagged a misquotation that should have been rendered as a paraphrase.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2022
O’Brien’s conversation often turns to literary quotation—and, at times, to lively misquotation.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 7, 2019
In the book, Mr. Sullivan offers 10 common “mechanisms” that he says lead to misquotation and incorrect attribution.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2017
Byron might have turned in his grave at having his dissolute stiff-neck so wrung for him by misquotation.
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Housman, Laurence
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