misquote
verb (used with or without object)
to quote incorrectly.
misquoted
Example Sentences
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Kant had said he was misquoted then too.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Few writers have been more quoted — or misquoted — than Orwell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
His opinion repeatedly misquoted key pieces of evidence to accuse officials of saying things that they did not.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2025
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” John F. Kennedy warned as he misquoted Edmund Burke.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2024
Assuming that Snyder misspoke or was misquoted and meant to say that one homeless person died every forty-five seconds, that’s still 701,000 dead homeless people every year—roughly one-third of all deaths in the United States.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
