misstate
Americanverb (used with object)
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misstates,
present (3rd person singular)
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misstated,
past participle, past
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misstating
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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misstatesimple
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misstatessimple
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have misstatedperfect
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has misstatedperfect
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am misstatingprogressive
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are misstatingprogressive
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is misstatingprogressive
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have been misstatingperfect progressive
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has been misstatingperfect progressive
Past
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misstatedsimple
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had misstatedperfect
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was misstatingprogressive
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were misstatingprogressive
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had been misstatingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of misstate
Example Sentences
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"He's pretty young, I will say. He's 17," the former president said, appearing to misstate his age.
From BBC ● May 10, 2024
Benioff has ranted that large language models, which underpin generative AI, steal business data and “lie” when they misstate facts, implicitly underscoring the need for an intermediary.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
“It’s only those who don’t take the time to read it who will misstate it,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
“When you misstate or frame statistics in a manner that support your view ...” Moore paused, then concluded his thought.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2023
Was it fair for the editor of a leading journal to misstate so obvious a fact?
From An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell
Mr. Burke misstates the date the Air France plane was hijacked as July 6, 1976.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
Nikola said Milton's social media post "misstates the facts," adding in a statement to Reuters that the proposal to increase its share base could pass without his support.
From Reuters ● Jun. 16, 2023
“Bauer does not present any compelling argument as to why Thiagarajah’s using a synonym of the court’s own language misstates the court’s findings.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
“This report is incorrect and misstates FTC guidance — ads in Amazon’s store always include a clear and prominent ‘sponsored’ label, implemented in accordance with FTC guidelines,” she said in an emailed statement.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
He misstates it thus: "To such laws of the church as have warrant in holy scripture, our law giveth credence," and cites Prisot, mistranslating "ancien scripture" into holy scripture.
From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by George Jacob Holyoake
Correction, Aug. 4, 2026: This article originally misstated that Hong is the Madison mayor.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
A previous version of this report misstated the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026
“Thus, he both misstated the purpose and location of the gathering,” the JPMorgan spokesman said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
District Judge George Wu, misstated the law required to prove guilt, saying if Boylan “engaged in misconduct and/or acted with gross negligence,” he could be found guilty of the charge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
Names, dates, and places have been misstated, but such inadvertences are not misleading.
From Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Carson Jay Lee
“Santander’s decision to broadly market its new stated-income policy, even to dealers with a history of misstating income, led to a significant spike in the number of early payment defaults.”
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2026
That report was widely criticized for misattribution and for misstating the conclusions of the studies it cited.
From Barron's ● Jan. 17, 2026
In the courtroom, government lawyers actually told Judge Howell that these officials “don’t necessarily understand” legal “terms of art” like reasonable suspicion and probable cause and that they were just misstating the policy.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2025
She was arrested two years later on charges she defrauded the bank by misstating the amount of customers the startup had and was convicted in March.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
Who is to check me if I am misstating the evidence if he does not?
From The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit by Richard Harris
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